Obs. Also 7 phantastry. [f. FANTAST + -RY.] a. Fantastic display or show; ostentation, affectation. Also concr. Showy trappings. b. Visionary delusion. c. Illusory character, deceptiveness.
1656. H. More, Enthus. Tri., § 47. 47. Their brains are merely heated and infected by this strong spirit of Phantastrie that breaths in Paracelsus his Books.
1670. Glanvill, Way Happiness, iv. § 3. 139. The indiscretions … of some preachers, the phantastry and vain babble of others.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1686), III. 429. There shall they stand bare and devested of all their phantastry.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 47. There is something in us superiour to Sense, which judges of it, detects its Phantastry, and condemns its Imposture.
1710. R. Ward, Life H. More, 28. Fantastry and Levity, and (which is worse) of Vice and Immortality, that is so much seen to abound amongst us. Ibid., 51. Against Fantastry and Enthusiasm it self.
