fantasy (contrast FANCY sb.)
1.
delusive
imagination, hallucination 1H4 V. iv. 137*
“is it That plays upon our
eyesight?,”
Ham. I. i. 54*
“Is not this something more
than fantasy?.”
2.
imagination
Wiv. V. v. 57
“the organs of her ,”
MND. V. i. 5, AYL. II. iv. 31*,
Rom. I. iv. 99
“Begot of nothing but
vain ,”
Cæs. II. i. 197,
III. iii. 2.
3.
product or figment of
the imagination, fanciful image, fancy
MND. II. i. 258
“full of hateful
f-ies,”
John V. vii. 18
“legions of strange
f-ies,”
Cæs. II. i. 231
“no figures nor no
fantasies.”
4.
caprice, whim Rom. II. iv. 31,
Ham. IV. iv. 61
“for a fantasy and trick
of fame,”
Oth. III. iii.
299.
