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chimerical, a.|kɪˈmɛrɪkəl, kaɪ-|
Forms: 7 chymærical, chymerical(l, 7–8 chimærical(l, 7– chimerical.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of the nature of a chimera; vainly or fantastically conceived, imaginary, fanciful, visionary.
1638Featly Strict. Lyndom. ii. 9 The fire of Purgatory is rightly termed..Chymericall, because a meere fiction. 1709Steele Tatler No. 69 ⁋1 He can..distinguish between Chimærical and Practical Politicks. 1763Johnson in Boswell xv, Sir, this book..is a pretty essay..though much of it is chimerical. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 178 The distant and chimerical projects of Hamilcar.
2. Prone to entertain chimeras; filled with idle fancies and wild dreams; whimsical, fanciful.
1660Charac. Italy 10 Hammer'd in the impure mint of his own Chymærical Pericranium. 1718Freethinker No. 95. 287 She is somewhat too scrupulous, if not a little chimerical. 1854A. R. Scoble tr. Guizot's Oliver Cromwell i. 4 The most chimerical of the non-military republicans.
Hence chiˈmerically adv., in a chimerical way, ‘vainly, wildly, fantastically’, in Bailey (fol.) 1731–6, Johnson, and mod. Dicts.; chiˈmericalness rare—0, chimerical quality, ‘imaginariness, whimsicalness’ (Bailey (fol.) 1731–6.) |