a. (UN-1 7.)
1740. G. Turnbull, Princ. Mor. Philos., vii. 213, note. It is reason, good sense, or philosophy, that must preside, in order to preserve the human mind sound, governable, and unfantastical.
[1775. Ash.]
1842. Athenæum, 19 March, 245/2. How often, when we read the fine writing of this age, do we wish for the old-fashioned style of a Hume or a Robertson, a Sir Joshua Reynolds, or a Jonathan Richardson, homely, but clear, un-picturesque, perhaps, but unfantastical; wherein if there is a mistake, we see it to be a mistake, if there is none, we do not suspect one from the jarring nature of the language.
1862. R. H. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 334. In any common-sense and unfantastical view of the matter.
