phantomry

English

Etymology

From phantom +‎ -ry.

Noun

phantomry (uncountable)

1. Ghosts generally.
   • 1847, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, New Monthly Magazine, volume 79, page 112:

     Talk of maidens, youngsters, and adults delighting to revel in the perusal of such phantomry!

   • 1873, Anthony Trollope, Saint Pauls Magazine, volume 12, page 412:

     […] giant forms / Seen through the deepening gloom of fire-illumined vapour. / Saw I them? Or did the anguish of my spirit / Shape the wild phantomry?

   • 1950, Montague Summers, The Physical Phenomena Of Mysticism, page 19:

     […] but the teaching of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and herein lay an inexhaustible source of strength, utterly rejected this false spectral phantomry.