What is "phantastic"

Usage examples of "phantastic".

The flame danced in the chimney of the lamp and changed the faces in phantastic alteration.

Canon be understood in its bare meaning without any explanation, who is so dense as to maintain on that account that all their witchcraft and injuries are phantastic and imaginary, when the contrary is evident to the senses of everybody?

You can find an illustration of this in the eloquent contortions of phantastic logic in the essays on the criminal code written by a great advocate of the classic school of criminology, Mario Pagano, this admirable type of a scientist and patriot, who does not lock himself up in the quiet egoism of his study, but feels the ideal of his time stirring within him and gives up his life to it.

This scenery, therefore, is by no means idly phantastic, but has definite symbolic relationship to the problems of the soul, of evolution, and of the cosmic reactions.

Cockney rhymester, dreaming a phantastic dream at the full of the moon.

I passed quite easily through the tall grass, overgrown shrubs, and tangled bushes at the edge, but beyond that were ancient, stocky trees that spread their twisted branches into phantastic shapes as if pleading for more light, and here the darkness began to close about me and the sinister branches seemed to be reaching out to me like the long fingers of huge hands.