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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
fantastic .
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Examples
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World; and surely, there is almost as little of that phantastick
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Nothing here excites or asswages emotion; here is no magical power of raising phantastick terror or wild anxiety.
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Nothing here "excites or assuages emotion:" here is "no magical power of raising phantastick terrour or wild anxiety."
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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Foreign fashions are no baits to catch them; nor phantastick, rather phanatick dressings, to delude them.
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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Foreign fashions are no baits to catch them; nor phantastick, rather phanatick dressings, to delude them.
The Gentlewomans Companion [Unknown] 1589
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