fancy, fansie

& a. [A corruption of the fuller form fantasy (q.v.); O. Fr. fantasie; from Low Lat. fantasia, phantasia, from Gr. phantasia = a making visible; imagination; phantazō = to make visible, and phaino = to bring to light, to shine; Sp., Port. & Ital fantasia.] [FANTASIA, FANTASY.] IMG:content-1419.png:[blocks in formation] "Tell me, where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?" Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , iii. 2. *7. Taste, idea, conception of propriety. "The little chapel called the Salutation is very neat, and built with a pretty fancy ."- Add is on . *8. Some one or something which pleases or entertains without inspiring real affection or respect. "London-pride is a pretty fancy for borders."- Morti . mer: Husbandry. *9. Fantasticalne . "Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expre ed in fancy , rich not gaudy." IMG:content-1420.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Mental Phil .: The power or faculty called im agin at i on, but so exercised as to bring into life mental pictures in which the grouping is founded on superficial points of similarity or other a ociations, rather than on the deeper and more nat fand