fantasying

Verb

fantasy (third-person singular simple present fantasies, present participle fantasying, simple past and past participle fantasied)

1. (transitive) To conceive (something) mentally; to imagine.
2. (literary, transitive) To fantasize about (something).
   • Instead of phantasying marriage, she actually feels that she is already married to the man of her phantasy.1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 127
3. (intransitive) To conceive mentally; to imagine.
   • Firſt I phantaſied that if I liſt to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall Scepter of the realme, now was the time propice and conuenient.1569, Richard Grafton, “Richarde the Thirde”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey...
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
   • Which he doth most fantasy.1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the...

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