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verb

Fancy v. t.

To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine. "He whom I fancy, but can ne'er express."

To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners. "We fancy not the cardinal."

To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal). "He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him were his kinsmen."

Fancy v. i. (past & past part. fancied, pres. part. fancying)

To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof. "If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know."

To love. (Obs.)

adjective

Fancied adj. Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.

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Etymology of 'Fancied'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fancied" Quotes from Famous Books

... La Rochefoucauld imputed to her. Let us add further that she had always had a rivalry of beauty with Madame de Chatillon, and that her vanity was not sorry to humiliate a rival whom she did not tolerate by depriving her for a few days of a lover of whose attachment the latter fancied herself perfectly secure. Love and the senses had nothing to do with it in this matter. The gratification of the senses, it has already been remarked, did not ensnare her; she was proof against their surprises. ...

— Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... that we can conceit ourselves to have anything worth pluming ourselves upon. Once lift the curtain, once let my eye be flooded with the sight of God, and away goes all my self-conceit, and all my fancied superiority above others. One little molehill is pretty nearly the same height as another, if you measure them both against the top of the Himalayas, that lie in the background, with their glittering ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... at this minute a masterful depiction of a tall, bearded, horrified man who, clad in an anonymous rig of goat skins, with a fantastic umbrella clasped weakly in one huge paw, bends to examine an indication of humanity in the somewhat cubist wilderness whereof he had fancied himself ...

— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings

... riflemen, the elite of their army, formed into two divisions of 500 men each, one of which charged the regulars with great impetuosity, while the other advanced with a company of foot against the Indians. The regulars, dissatisfied by fancied or real neglect, and dispirited by long continued exposure and privation, made but a very feeble resistance; their ranks were pierced and broken, and being placed between two fires, they immediately surrendered, with the trifling loss of 12 killed and 22 wounded, the British ...

— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper

... rugged trunks made an open vista, he saw not two hundred yards away the gay spot of color made by the blue cloak. So she was still here, lingering down the road that wound about the lake's shores, when already he had fancied her far on her way. He wondered for the first ...

— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory

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