In the Positive doctrine, to the really existing fact of live men is attributed the fantastical attributes of an organism.
In matter, the similarity lies in the fact that in both doctrines alike a fantastical meaning is attached to really existing things, and this artificial meaning is taken as the object of our research.
This fantastical account is much more readable than the former bare narration.
At no time before or since was there such fantastical fashion in dress, both in cut and gay colors, nor more sumptuousness in costume or luxury in display among the upper classes, and such squalor in low life.
You think her sensitive because she has soft little white hands, and big blue eyes with long lashes, and all manner of affected, fantastical ways, which you stupid men call fascinating.
The broad outer moat was dry and grass-grown, and the laden trees of the orchard hung over it with gnarled, straggling branches that drew fantastical shadows upon the green slope.
Pages of consummate realism are interwoven with the most fantastical incidents worthy only of the most incorrigible romantics.
Our imagination presents us with the idea of a sphinx, or of an hippogriff, besides a thousand other fantastical beings; are we, on that authority, to insist that these things really exist?
History abounds with details of the most atrocious cruelties, under the imposing name of public worship; nothing has been considered either too fantastical or too flagitious by the votaries of superstition.
The number of beautiful fishing birds, such as egrets and cranes, and the succulent plants assuming most fantastical forms, gave to the scene an interest which it would not otherwise have possessed.
He receives these little dots and specks, and fantastical quirks of the pencil, and cuts away with a little knife round each, not too much nor too little.
Fantastical and odd apparel would perchance draw somebody to look on her.
She has been to Baron, the comedian, and presented herself alternately as a peasant girl, a fantastical lady, and as a young drummer of the Royal Guard.
Mirrors reflect the wares, and give the establishment an artificial extension, by lamplight a fantastical grandeur.
Roman foppery, fantastical in feminine pretentiousness, serves as a foil to drag Culagna down into the ditch of ignominy.
If the old fantastical Duke of dark corners had been at home, he had lived.
I' the name of truth, Are ye fantastical or that indeed Which outwardly ye show?
Tis no matter; ne'er a fantastical knave of them all shall flout me out of my calling.
Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor, but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies.
It was a mad fantasticaltrick of him to steal from the state and usurp the beggary he was never born to.
While the most glaring errors of the tropical Euphues are strained allegorical conceits, Shakspeare's fault is oftener the devising of subtle and unreal distinctions, or the ringing of fantastical changes upon words.
I gave you a description of the man who had killed Professor McMurray; yet you proceed to build up a fantastical case against this poor devil.
The most fantastical stories were related, credited, and debated with gravity and concern.
There are several other Academies of this nature, bearing like fantastical titles.
Edward interrupting her; "is your fair life to fall a victim to this fantastical delusion?
Her caustic condemnation of thefantastical Mistress Clo had gradually lapsed into a doubtful wonder, which later became open amaze not untinged with a pretty spitefulness and resentment.
With a dryness that smacked of his uncle Everard Romfrey, Beauchamp said of the fantastical posture of the young man, 'One can do that on fresh water.
He afterwards proceeded to take Notice of the great Use this paper might be of to the Publick, by reprehending those Vices which are too trivial for the Chastisement of the Law, and too fantastical for the Cognizance of the Pulpit.
THE CHILD ANGEL A DREAM I chanced upon the prettiest, oddest, fantastical thing of a dream the other night, that you shall hear of.
You do not know whether the hours move or stand still, go backwards or forwards, so fantastical and perplexing are their accompaniments.
It would be impossible for even the most fantastical scenic artist to exaggerate the picturesque combinations of colour and form ever changing like a kaleidoscope to exhibit new delights.
The fantastical part of the Arcadian society was common to them with all similar institutions; and mankind has generally required some ceremonial follies to keep alive the wholesome spirit of association.
He prayed the stone to ascend, the water to mount above its level, the mountains to remove, and substituting a fantastical world for the real one, he peopled it with imaginary beings, to the terror of his mind and the torment of his race.
It introduces us moreover into so strange and fantastical a world as not the most imaginative of fictions can surpass.
Perhaps the absence of his silent referee gave him a kind of comfort, though at the same time it disappointed him in some fantastical way, for he turned with a curious look of relief and vexation to his brother.
The thick greenish glass of the windows refused to reflect the sunbeams; the roof supported gilded vanes of fantastical form; the garden was laid out in formal parterres.
We regret to say that instances of this painful obscurity, of this outrageous and fantastical style of writing, it would not be difficult to multiply, were it either necessary or desirable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fantastical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
