fantasticate

[ fan-tas-ti-keyt ]

verb (used with object)

, fan·tas·ti·cat·ed, fan·tas·ti·cat·ing.

1. to make or render fantastic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fantasticate¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; fantastic + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

“There is a definite attempt to heighten reality,” Mr. Walton told the New York Times in 1991, explaining his approach to “Mary Poppins,” “to fantasticate it, and try to make it a matter of delight.”

From Washington Post

When, instead of enjoying, we fantasticate in theory, we not only remove a proportion of our attention from the work in hand, but also exclude ourselves from getting the good we might from other things; one man will positively whip his soul out of enjoying the sweet solemnity of Claude's sea sunsets, the tragedy pomp of Poussin's black rustling ilex-groves, and ominous green evening skies, because he seeks in painting a moral sincerity which is incompatible with a false shadow or a lumpishly rendered cloud.

From Project Gutenberg

At the risk of seeming to fantasticate I confess that the Pope's having built the viaduct— in this very recent antiquity—made me linger there in a pensive posture and marvel at the march of history and at Pius the Ninth's beginning already to profit by the sentimental allowances we make to vanished powers.

From Project Gutenberg