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"Section F, G and H"

See
Fancy.] 1. Existing only in imagination;
fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.


2. Having the nature of a phantom;
unreal.
Shak.


3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination;
whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic
minds; a fantastic mistress.


4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity,
caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped;
grotesque.


There at the foot of yonder nodding beech,

That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.

T. Gray.


Syn. -- Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary;
capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful.


Fan*tas"tic, n. A person given to
fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.

Milton.


Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take
all ocasions to draw it out to be seen.

Fuller.


Fan*tas"tic*al (?), a. Fanciful;
unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.


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