ppl. a. arch. [f. FANTASY sb. and v. + -ED.] a. Framed by the fancy; imaginary. b. Filled with (strange, new) fancies or imaginations (so OF. fantasié). c. Characterized by phantasy; dreamy, imaginative. d. Full of fancies or caprices; whimsical.
a. 1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., II. xiv. (1634), 230. A fantasied Ghost is thrust in place of the Manhood.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, VI. xi. 521. The people indeede are the spirits which in our time kept the Kings fingers from them, who else would haue aduentured all those phantasied dangers to haue possessed himselfe of the golde for his warres against the Portugales.
b. 1590. Sir J. Smythe, Disc. Weapons, 2 b. These our such new fantasied men of warre doo despise and scorne our auncient arming of our selues both on horseback and on foote.
1595. Shaks., John, IV. ii. 144.
| But as I travell’d hither through the land, | |
| I finde the people strangely fantasied. |
c. 1881. Shorthouse, John Inglesant, II. ii. 54. The remembrance of his friend took complete possession of his mind; and his imagination, instead of dwelling on the solemn music of the motet, wandered perversely into the alluring world of phantasied melody which Vanneo had composed.
d. 1883. C. F. Woolson, For the Major, iv. Meanwhile Mr. Dupont was conducting himself after his usual fantasied fashion.
