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Fantasie, n. Also: fantasé, -asie, -asy(e, -assy; fantesy, -esie, -essy; fantisie. [ME. fantasie, fantasy (c 1325), -esie, etc., OF. fantasie, L. phantasia Phantasy.]

1. The product of imagination, having no basis in reality. a1400 Leg. S. viii. 68.
[Thai] forsit thame to preche thane, That nocht bot fantassy it wes c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2819.
Leif we now suche fantasy, And turn we to the trewe story c1420 Wynt. vi. 2209.
That Makbeth aye In fantown fretys had gret fay, And trowth had in swylk fantassy c1475 Wall. ix. 1547.
He seis the warld so full of fantasie 1513 Doug. iii. iii. 47.
This was nowthir dreym nor fantasy 1567 G. Ball. 237.
The ioy of it I wait is fantasie a1585 Maitl. Q. lxix. 70.
Quhen I persauit that … all wes fantasie that I had sene

b. Action without good cause; caprice, fancy. c1475 Wall. i. 370.
Fysche to tak he went; Sic fantasye fell in his entent Ib. xi. 660.
Tyll a chyftane, thai held it fantasy To walk allayn a1500 Prestis Peblis 826.
Sik fantesie hes put me in effray; I am sa ful of lust and fantesy With this madyn [etc.] 1535 Stewart 24861.
This Wortigerne, … Throw fantasie of this Roxiana, Of hir sic plesour he had [etc.]

2. A purely imaginary idea or object; a fancy.(a) c1420 Wynt. iv. 2346.
C, that lettyre capytalle, Is set in nowmerys wsualle For ane hundyre, and for-thi The Romanys had a fantasy Fra C off Cesare wes away, That [etc.] 1456 Hay II. 142/2.
Slombering efter mete, with fantasies and fleying in dremys 1513 Doug. vi. Prol. 17.
All is bot gaistis, and elrich fantasyis, Of browneis and of bogillis ful this buke 1560 Rolland Seven S. 445.
I am brocht in ane greit fantasie, Quhilk hes me maid richt fleit and als affeird 1571 Sat. P. xxviii. 18.
Can I nocht tell … gif be feir sic fantaseis we tak(b) 1492 Myll Spect. 272/1.
Quhilkis thochtis and fantesyes trublit my spreit a1500 Lanc. 2328.
The lady smylit at ther fantessy a1500 Colk. Sow Prol. 47.
I will say of my fantesy Sum solasing to glaid this cumpany c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxv. 10 (B).
On me ane slummer soft Come with ane dremyng and a fantesy

3. Imagination; inclination to fanciful ideas. 1456 Hay II. 127/14.
[Lack of food] fillis the stomak of a froith of fantasy quhilk hinderis syne the appetite a1500 Henr. Orph. 432.
Erudices is our effectioun Be fantasye oft movit wp & dovn a1500 Bernardus 266.
The mar thow art applyit to polisy, The mare encreseis thi mynde in fantasy 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. iii. 581.
Hes thow nocht ellis ado, Bot all thy wit and fantasie to set On sic doting? 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 222.
It apperit, in myne fantasie, I hard this dolent lamentatioun 1560 Rolland Seven S. 7413.
I was ane fule fulfillit of fantasie 1570 Buch. Wr. 48.
Be making ane factioun … of men lycht of fantase and covatous of geir 1587-99 Hume ii. 70.
The eyes sa reddie are to see … what sa the fantasie wald