FANCY (a shortened

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• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, dating from the 15th

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• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie,

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• MODERN

modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv,

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• OAT (O. Eng. ate; the word is not found in cognate languages; it may be allied with Fr. eitel, knot, nodule, cf. Gr. oiSos swelling)

Oat Pais, to show)  , display, showing forth, as a philosophical term, the presentative power of the mind . The word " fancy " and the older form " fantasy," which is now chiefly used poetic-ally, was in its early application synonymous with imagination, the mental faculty of creating representations or images of things not present to the senses; it is more usually, in this sense, applied to the lighter forms of the imagination . " Fancy " also commonly means inclination, whim, caprice . The more learned form phantasy," as also such words as " phantom " and " phantasm," is chiefly confined to visionary imaginings .