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Quotation dates: 1499-1574
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Fantastik, a. and n. Also: -ick, -ike, -yke. [ME. fantastik (a 1387), -ike, -yke, etc., med. L. fantasticus.]
1. adj. Fanciful. Chiefly of persons. a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow Prol. 51.
Pardoun the fulich face of this mad metir, Sen the sentence to feill is fantastike a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 35.
Fantastik fule, traist weill thow salbe fleyit c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxiii. 58.
Fantastik fulis, bayth fals and gredy 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 381.
Nor to fantastyke fenȝeit flatteraris 1574 Misc. Maitl. C. I. 108.
Calling him ane fantastic man, … with sicklik injurious vordis
2. n. A fanciful person. 1560 Acts II. 531/1.
As sum fantastickes do affirme
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