phantasie

phantasie (plural phantasies)

1. Obsolete spelling of fantasy.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Is not this ſomthing more then phantaſie?

phantasie (third-person singular simple present phantasies, present participle phantasying, simple past and past participle phantasied)

1. Obsolete spelling of fantasy.
   • 1569, Richard Grafton, “Richarde the Thirde”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 816:

     Firſt I phantaſied that if I liſt to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall Scepter of the realme, now was the time propice and conuenient.

• antiphase, aphanites

• Homophones: phantasient, phantasies

phantasie

1. inflection of phantasier:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old French fantasie, with the ph- reinstated to reflect Latin phantasia and its Ancient Greek source φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”).

phantasie f (plural phantasies)

1. fantasy (that which comes from one's imagination)

• French: fantaisie