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語源

Latin phasma or Ancient Greek φάσμα (phásma). See phase.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæzəm/
• 韻: -æzəm

名詞

phasm (複数形 phasms または phasma)

1. (obsolete) An apparition; a phantom.
   • 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...

     For heart is besides that from thence proceed many aerial fictions , and not from God, phasms, and chimeras , created by the vanity of our own hearts

   • 1677, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great:

     After a small space the lights‥extinguish, and‥the Phasma having assumed a bodily shape or other false representation accompanies her.