fantastic 
2. Due to fantasy or whim; arising from or 
caused by caprice ; groundless ; illusive. 
The offices 
Anil honours which I late on thee conferr'd 
Are not fantastic bounties, but thy merit. 
Ford, Lover's Melancholy, v. 1. 
3. Morbidly or grotesquely fanciful ; manifest- 
ing a disordered imagination ; chimerical. 
The melancholy of Dante was ]w fantastic caprice. 
Macaulay, Milton. 
4. Suggestive of fantasies through oddness of 
figure, action, or appearance, or through an air 
of unreality; whimsically formed or shaped; 
grotesque. 
There at the foot of yonder nodding beech 
That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. 
Gray, Elegy. 
Nothing could well be more picturesque than this gar- 
den view of the city ramparts, lifting their fantastic bat- 
tlements above the trees and flowers. 
//. Janus, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 207. 
5. Controlled by fantasy; indulging the va- 
garies of imagination; capricious: as, fantas- 
tic minds; a, fantastic mistress. 
Every friend whom not thy fantastic will, but the great 
and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his 
embrace. Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 267. 
= Syn. Grotesque, etc. (see fanciful) ; odd, queer, strange, 
freakish, quaint. 
II. n. One who acts fantastically or ridicu- 
lously ; a grotesque. Sometimes used in the plural 
of a company of persons grotesquely dressed, and acting 
or parading in a ludicrous way, lor amusement. 
Alas, the fioor fantastic .' 
B. Jtmmn, Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 1. 
Not like onr/<tnfa*fu, who, having a fine watch, take 
all occasions to draw it out to be seen. 
Fuller, Holy State, p. 245. 
fantastical (fan-tas'ti-kal), a. [< fantastic + 
-a(.] Same ta fantastic. 
Some foolishe and fantasticall personnes haue wrytteu. 
Hall, Henry IV., an. . 
Fantastical or chimerical I call such [ideas] as have no 
foundation in nature, nor have any conformity with that 
reality of being to which they are tacitly referred as to 
their archetypes. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxx. 1. 
fantasticality (fan-tas-ti-kal'i-ti), n. ; pi. fan- 
tasticalities (-tiz). [< fantastical + -ity.~\ 1. 
Fantasticalness. 
Which in mocking sort described unto Fido the fantas- 
ticality of each man's apparell, and apishuesse of gesture. 
The Man in the Moon, 1609. 
2. Something fantastic. 
Plants that do not look like real plants, but like idealiza- 
tions of plants, like the fantasticalities of wood-carvers 
and stone-cutters animated by witchcraft. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 617. 
fantastically (fan-tas'ti-kal-i), adv. In a fan- 
tastic manner ; capriciously ; whimsically. 
Her sceptre so fantastically borne. 
Shak., Hen. V., ii. 4. 
He dresses the ape fantastically, usually as a bride, or 
a veiled woman. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 110. 
fantasticalness (fan-tas'ti-kal-nes), n. The 
state of being fantastic ; humorousness ; whim- 
sicalness; unreasonableness; caprice. 
Not that I dare assume to myself to have put him out 
of conceit with it by having convinced him of thefantatt- 
ticalness of it. Tillotson, Works, Pref. 
This wild tradition . . . had the effect to give him a 
sense of the fantasticalness of his present pursuit. 
Hawthorne, Septimius Felton, p. 121 
fantasticism (fan-tas'ti-sizm), n. [(fantastic 
+ -ism.'] The quality of being fantastic ; fan- 
tasticalness. [Bare.] 
Not only does the introduction of these imaginary be- 
ings permit greater fantasticism of incident, but also inn- 
nite fantasticism of treatment. 
Kuskin, Modern Painters, IV. viii. 7. 
fantasticlyt (fan-tas'tik-li), adv. Fantastically. 
He is neither too fantastickly melancholy, or too rashly 
cholerick. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels. 
fantasticness (fan-tas'tik-nes), n. Fantasti- 
calness. [Rare.] 
Vain Delight, thou feeder of my follies 
With light fantasticness, be thou in favour ! 
Beau, and Fl., Four Plays in One. 
fantastico (fan-tas'ti-ko), n. [It.: see fantas- 
tic.] A fantastic. 
The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting fantasticoes, 
these new tuners of accents ! Shak., R. and J., ii. 4. 
fantastryt, n. [( fantast(ie) + -ry.~\ Fantas- 
ticalness. 
Yea, through the indiscretions and inconsiderateness of 
some preachers, thefantastry and vain-babble of others, 
. . , things are in many places come to that pass that 
those who teach Christian vertue and Religion in plain- 
ness and simplicity . . . shall be reckon'd for dry moral- 
ists. OlanviUe, Sermons, i. 
fantasy, phantasy (fan'ta-si), >i. ; -pi. fantasies, 
phantasies (-siz). [Early mod. E. also fan ta- 
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sie, phantasie; < ME. fantasye, fantesye, faun- 
ttixijf, etc. ; the older form of fancy, q. v.] If. 
Same as faiiri/. 
lluddrii no fantesye to debate. 
Chaucer, Former Age, 1. 51 . 
And to our high-raised phantasy present 
That undisturbed song of pure concent. 
Milton, Solemn Music, 1. 5. 
2. Irregular or erratic fancy in thought or 
action; unrestrained imagination; whim; ca- 
price; vagary. 
The charm [of Lichfleld Cathedral] is increased by a 
singular architectural fantasy. 
H. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 23. 
The belief, rejected in recent times, that the phantasy 
of the mother can impart to her child the features of a 
picture that has made a strong impression on her, I can- 
not regard as impossible. 
Lotze, Microcosmus (trans.), I. 502. 
3. The forming of unreal, chimerical, or gro- 
tesque images in the mind ; a mingling of in- 
congruous or unfounded ideas or notions; dis- 
ordered or distorted fancy ; fantastic imagina- 
tion. 
In theise thinges and in suche othere ther ben many 
folk that beleeven ; because it happenethe so often tyme 
to falle aftre here fantasyes. Mandemlle, Travels, p. 166. 
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 
Such shaping/an0<m>3, that apprehend 
More than cool reason ever comprehends. 
SAa*., M. N. D., v. 1. 
Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere 
fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who 
have the gift of dreams, or who can afford to buy it in a 
vulgar drug as De Quincey bought it. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 176. 
4. A product or result of the power of fanta- 
sy ; a fantastic image or thought ; a disordered 
or distorted fancy ; a phantasm. 
Som other fauntasyes appyeren by nyght tyme vnto 
many oon in dyuerse places in lyknes of wymen with old 
face. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), Pref., p. xiii. 
A thousand fantasies 
Begin to throng into my memory, 
Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, 
And aery tongues that syllable men's names. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 205. 
It was a corpse in its burial clothes. Suddenly the fixed 
features seemed to move with dark emotion. Strange fan- 
tasy ! It was but the shadow of the fringed curtain. 
Hawthorne, The White Old Maid. 
There are thousands of usually intelligent citizens who 
have decided that a Pacific railroad is a ... fantasy of 
demagogues and visionaries. 
//. Greeley, Overland Journey, xxxiv. 
5. In music, same as fantasia. = Syn. Fantasy, 
Fancy. See imagination. The present differentiation in 
meaning of the word fantasy from its contracted form 
fancy (heretofore overlooked by lexicographers), identical 
with that between the correlative adjectives fantastic and 
fanciful, is well illustrated in the following extracts : 
Ye woods ! that wave o'er Avon's rocky steep, 
To Fancy's ear sweet is your murmuring deep ! . . . 
Alas vain Phantasies! the fleeting brood 
Of Woe self-solaced in her dreamy wood ! 
Coleridge, Death of Chatterton. 
From first to last, the processes of phantasy have been 
at work ; but where the savage could see phantasms, the 
civilized man has come to amuse himself with fancies. 
E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 284. 
The cold and mysterious power of the classic architec- 
ture [in a building described] is wedded to the rich and 
libertine fancy of the Renaissance, treading unrestrained 
and unabashed the maze of nature and of phantasy. 
J. H. Shorthotise, John Inglesant. 
fantasy (fan'ta-si), v.; pret. and pp. fantasied, 
ppr. fantasying. [< fantasy, n. ; the older form 
of fancy, q. v. Cf. OF.fantasier.~\ I. trans. If. 
To fancy ; have a liking for. 
The King . . . fantasied so much his daughter. 
O. Cavendish, Wolsey. 
2. To form or conceive fancifully or fantasti- 
cally ; form a mental picture of ; imagine. 
I passe ouer the fantasieing of formes, accidents, out- 
warde elementes, miraculous changes, secrete presences, 
and other like forced termes, whereof Tertullian knoweth 
none. Bp. Jewell, Reply to Harding, p. 465. 
A dream . . . so fantasied. Keats. 
He fantasied in his imagination a kind of religion, half 
Catholic, half Reformed, in order to content all persons. 
Motley, Dutch Republic, II. 17. 
3. In music, to compose or perform in the man- 
ner of a fantasia. 
The alluring world ofphantasied music. 
J. H. Shorthouse. 
II. intrans. In music, to play fantasias. 
He [Hoffmann] could fantasy to admiration on the 
harpsichord. Carlyle, Crit. and Misc. Essays, I., App. 
fantickle (fan'tik-1), . A variant of fernticle. 
fantoccini (fan-to-che'ne), n. pi. [It., pi. otfan- 
toccio, a puppet, dwarf, baboon, < fante, boy, 
servant, knave at cards, a foot-soldier, abbr. 
of infante, child, infant: see infant, infantry, 
fount.] 1. Puppets which are made to go 
through evolutions by means of concealed wires 
far 
or strings. 2. Dramatic representations in 
which puppets are substituted for human per- 
formers. 
fantom, it. See phantom. 
fan-tracery (fan'tra"se-ri), N. In late medimil 
nrr/i., elaborate geometrical carved tracery 
which rises from a capital or a corbel, and di- 
/S. 
Fan-tracery. Cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral, England. 
verges like the folds of a fan, spreading over 
the surface of a vault Fan- tracery vaulting, . 
very complicated mode of roofing, much used in the Per- 
pendicular style, in which the vault is covered by ribs and 
veins of tracery, all the principal lines diverging from a 
point, as in Henry VII. 's Chapel in Westminster Abbey. 
fan-training (fan'tra'ning), H. In hort., a 
method of training a tree or vine on a wall or 
trellis in such a manner that the branches ra- 
diate from the trunk at regular intervals and 
at continually smaller angles, the lower branch 
on each side being approximately horizontal. 
Half fan-training, a method of training similar to fan- 
training, but in which the lower branches rise obliquely 
from the trunk. 
fan-veined (fan'vand), a. 1. In hot., having 
the veins spreading from a common point, like 
the ribs of a fan. 2. In entom., same as fan- 
nerved. 
fan-wheel (fan'hwel), n. Same as fan-bloicer. 
fan-window (fan'win"do), n. A window hav- 
ing a semicircular outline and a sash formed 
of radial bars. Compare fan-shaped window, 
under fan-shaped. 
fan-winged (fan'wingd), a. Having wings like 
fans. 
fanwise (fan'wiz), adv. [< fan + -wise.'} In 
the manner or shape of a fan. 
There were impressions of feathers radiating fameise 
from each of the fore-limbs. 
T. Foster, in Proctor's Nature Studies, p. 43. 
fanwise (fan'wiz), a. [< fanwise, adv."] Hav- 
ing the shape or appearance of a fan. [Bare.] 
The fanwise and rounded arrangement of the wing- 
feather's. T. Foster, in Proctor's Nature Studies, p. 44. 
fapt (fap), a. Fuddled. [Old slang.] 
Bard. Why, sir, for my part, I say, the gentleman had 
drunk himself out of his five sentences. 
Eva. It is his five senses : fle, what the ignorance is ! 
Bard. And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered. 
Shak., M. W. of W., i. 1. 
fapesmo (fa-pes'mo), n. In logic, an indirect 
mood of the first figure of syllogism : one of the 
mnemonic words supposed to have been in- 
vented by Petrus Hispanus in the thirteenth 
century, and given in the " Summul Logicales " 
of that 'author. Every letter in it is significant : the / 
means that the syllogism is to be reduced to ferio ; the 
o, that the major premise is universal affirmative ; the p, 
that that premise is to be converted per accidens in the 
reduction ; the e, that the minor premise is universal neg- 
ative ; the s, that that premise is to be converted simply ; 
the in, that the two premises are to be transposed in the 
reduction ; and the o, that the conclusion is particular 
negative. The following is an example of fapesmo: All 
viviparous marine animals have fins ; no fishes are vivipa- 
rous marine animals ; therefore, some animals that have 
tins are not fishes. Fapesmo, when considered as belong- 
ing to the fourth figure, is called fesapo. The rare word 
fapemo is another name for the mood fe lapton. 
faquir, n. See/oWr*. 
far 1 (far), adv. ; compar. farther and further, 
superl. farthest and furthest (see etym., and 
farther, further). [Also <&&l.fer,fur,furr; ear- 
ly mod. E. also farre, furre ; < ME. fer, ferr, 
feor, feorr, rarely far, for, fur, <.A.S.feorr,feor, 
far, at a distance, = OS. fer = OFries. fer, 
fir = D. ver = LG. feern, feren = OHG. verro, 
