fancy (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Imagination, as a facultyII. The object of the faculty, an idea, conception1. spĕcies, ēi, f.2. phantăsia (a late word, and written by Cicero with Greek characters, φαντασία)3. ĭmāgĭnātio, ōnis, f. (a rare word)4. somnium (contemptuously5. lĭbīdo, ĭnis, f. (CAPRICE)6. prōlŭbium (a humour or inclination) • fancy (subs.): I. Imagination, as a faculty: q. v. II. The object of the faculty, an idea, conception: 1. spĕcies, ēi, f.: empty f.s, vanae s., Hor. A. P. 7: no idea, or f., can be conceived, nulla s. cogitari potest, Cic. Div. 2, 67, 132. 2. phantăsia (a late word, and written by Cicero with Greek characters, φαντασία): a mere f., not a man, ph., non homo, Petr. 38: Sen. 3. ĭmāgĭnātio, ōnis, f. (a rare word): f.s occurring in sleep, imaginationes in somno, Plin. 10, 7, 26. 4. somnium (contemptuously: a dream): mere f.s, somnia, Ter.: like a sick man's f.s, velut aegri somnia, Hor. A. P. 7: v. dream. 5. lĭbīdo, ĭnis, f. (caprice): according to one's f., ad libidinem, ex libidine, Cic.: Sall.: even the declination of the atoms is invented of his mere f., ipsa declinatio ad libidinem fingitur, Cic.: not to obey even kings save according to their f., ne regibus quidem parere nisi ex l., Tac. 6. prōlŭbium (a humour or inclination): they take a f. to hear, p. audiendi subit (eos), Gell. 16, 19. (Simly, Liv. has dulcedo invasio, foll. by gerund: 5, 13.) Phr.: if I have a f. to do so, si libet, Hor.: v. humour, caprice.
FANCY Copy link • FANCY 1. animus: sensus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) animus et sensus. [Vid: IMAGINATION.] ☞ Not phantasia, though it may be necessary to retain it as a technical term : *cogitationis luxuria or nimia quaedam ubertas. [Vid: IMAGINATION.] To have a lively fancy, acute moveri. A fancy = an unfounded, wayward notion, somnium (dream): opinionis commentum: commentum mirum (strange fancy); in plur., ineptiae, nugae (nonsense, folly, etc.): cura inanis (a groundless anxiety). To take fancies, inanes species anxio animo figurare: *inanibus curis se dare (of gloomy fancies): away with your melancholy fancies, omitte tristitiam tuam: these are mere fancies, haec falsa et inania sunt: a foolish fancy occurred to me, ineptum aliquid mihi in mentem venit: to accommodate one’s self to anybody’s fancies, ad alicujus arbitrium or voluntatem se fingere, or se accommodare; se totum ad alicujus nutum et voluntatem convertere; totum se fingere et accommodare ad alicujus arbitrium et nutum: according to one’s own fancy, ad libidinem: ex libidine: to follow one’s fancies, animi impetum aequi (whatever impulse seizes one). [Vid: HUMOR.] Inclination (for anything), Vid: To take a fancy for anything, libido me capit, libidinem habere in aliqua re (Sall., Cat., 7, 4): to have a fancy for doing anything, facere aliquid libido est (Plaut., Pers., 5, 2, 26): to take a violent fancy to do anything, magna (tanta, etc.) libido aliquid faciendi aliquem invadit (Sall.): to take a fancy for anybody, se inclinare ad (or in) aliquem (also aliquid); inclinatione voluntatis propendere in aliquem: a fancy for anybody, propensa in aliquem voluntas; propensum in aliquem studium: to have taken a fancy to anybody, propenso animo or propensa voluntate esse in aliquem: to have no fancy for anything, ab aliqua re alienum esse or abhorrere; nolle aliquid: to have no fancy either to... or, neque... neque... in animo est (Tac.). FANCY GOODS, merces delicatae (Sen.). A shop for fancy goods, *taberna delicatarum mercium. A dealer infinitive. goods, *qui tabernam delicatarum mercium exercet: institor delicatarum mercium (as calling at the door with them; Sen., Ben., 6, 38, 3). 2. v. Imagine, etc., somniare (to dream): cogitatione sibi aliquid depingere (to picture it to one’s imagination): videri (seem): To fancy myself ill, *aegrotare mihi videor. Like; have a mind to; Vid: LIKE; “am INCLINED to.