1659C.E., Richard Brome, The Love‐ſick Court, in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome, J Pearson; page #104:
What do we ſeem ? we are no Hypocrites
In fleſh or ſpirit ; no phantaſtick bodies
Or ſhadows of humanity.
1701C.E., John Jones, The Myſteries of Opium Reveal’d; Chapter XV, page #200:
From what is ſaid it will be obvious how duely to prepare and correct Opium, tho’ there has been no true Conception thereof hitherto, but meer groundleſs and phantaſtick Imaginations.
1827C.E., (author uncertain) The Gull’s Hornbook ; by T. Decker, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, William Blackwood and John Murray; Volume II, page #216:
The one invents more phantastick fashions, than France hath worn since her first stone was laid ; the other more lickerish epicurean dishes, than were ever served up to Gallonius’s table.
1852C.E., “Burton”, quoted in Littell's Living Age, E. Littell & Company; Volume XXXV, №. 438, page #50:
[…] and if Democritus were alive now he should see strange alterations, a new company of counterfeit vizards, whiffers, Cumane asses, maskers, mummers, painted puppets, outsides, phantastick shadows, guls, monsters, giddy‐heads, butter‐flies. . . . .