A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1567-1590
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Phantastik, -ick, a. (n.) [e.m.E. phantasticke (1592), var. of Fantastik a. and n.] a. Having no objective reality; existing only in imagination. b. (Extravagantly) fanciful. c. absol. as n. A fanciful person. —a. adj. c1590 Fowler II. 62/22.
He proueth … be the sacrament of the eucharist Christ for to haue had verry body and verry fleshe and not phantastik as they did think —b. a1585 Polwart Flyt. 728 (H).
Wha kend thy end fals fiend phantastick muill —c. absol. as n. 1567 Confession of Faith in Acts (1597) ii. 6 b.
As some phantastickes do affirme
