Obs. [It.; corresp. to FANTASTIC.] An absurd and irrational person.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. iv. 30 (Qo. 1). Limping antique affecting fantasticoes [fol. 1623 ed. phantacies] these new tuners of accents.
1600. Dekker, Fortunatus, Wks. 1873, I. 117. Fort. What pleasure, boy? I haue reueld with kings, daunc’d with Queenes, dallied with Ladies, worne straunge attires, seene fantasticoes, conuerst with humorists, beene rauisht with diuine raptures of Dorick, Lidian and Phrigian harmonies, I haue spent the day in triumphes, and the night in banquetting.
