FANTASY

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. Milton.

2.
n.

Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.

3.
v.

To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] Cavendish. Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia).