[f. TANTALUS + -IC.] = TANTALEAN; tantalizing.
1882. H. C. Merivale, Faucit of B., I. I. vi. 96. One of those Oxonian breakfasts which … haunt like Tantalic phantoms the egg and bacon of later years. Ibid., III. II. xx. 187. He … sketched Tantalic pictures of wealthy homes.
