phasm

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From Latin phasma or Ancient Greek φάσμα (phásma). See phase.

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phasm (plural phasms or phasma)

  1. (obsolete) An apparition; a phantom.
    • 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: [] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      For heart is besides that from thence proceed many aerial fictions , and not from God, phasms, and chimeras , created by the vanity of our own hearts
    • 1677, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great:
      After a small space the lights‥extinguish, and‥the Phasma having assumed a bodily shape or other false representation accompanies her.

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