fantasticise

English

Verb

fantasticise (third-person singular simple present fantasticises, present participle fantasticising, simple past and past participle fantasticised)

1. Alternative form of fantasticize
   • 1908, The Bystander: An Illustrated Weekly, Devoted to Travel, page 713:

     Yes, this massive, spectacled Cockney dreamer is doing marvellous things these days — he is fantasticising the familiar, making us see our old town radiant in a new and odd light. Orthodoxy abounds in some graver Chestertonisms.

   • 1918, G. Turquet-Milnes, Some Modern Belgian Writers: A Critical Study, page 105:

     In any case the resemblance between these two beings who fantasticise the world, comes in the first place from that same attitude of mind which makes a man love to debase himself, as well as from the identical conception they had of their art.

   • 2017, Mark Steven, Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism:

     But languish not to alter, Where to fantasticise would be to falter, To falter weakly, unachieving change.