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fan·cied | \ ˈfan(t)-sēd 
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\Definition of fancied
: imagined or believed to be true or real
a fancied resemblance I can't remember any damn memo of mine at all, but I have the distinct impression that almost all of them were written in anger over real or fancied wrongs …— James Thurber … like the split infinitive and other fancied lapses from verbal rectitude …— Kingsley Amis
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The first known use of fancied was in 1568
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