gelasma

As the Schwobian view is diabolical, so is there, on the other hand, a divine humour, a sweet and sacred gelasma, which we only do not associate with sacred things and grandeur, simply because we know nothing about their true inner nature and are not at home there.

1902, Charles Godfrey Leland, Flaxius

Charles Lamb worshipped, like the Spartans in Edgar Poe's story, at the mysterious shrine of the god Gelasma.

1900, The Quarterly Review, volume 192

So was a generation bred, more and more incapable of serious reading, of serious reflection, even of a primitive kind. Francis Thompson, a shrewd observer of his age, noted and shuddered at the growing popularity of the new goddess, Gelasma.

1950, Philip Hughes, edited by George Andrew Beck, The English Catholics, 1850-1950