eutopianadj.n.

1606 Returne Knight of Poste from Hell sig. B^v I beheld myselfe like an orphan,..building new castles in the aire, and strange Eutopian commonwealthes in my fantasticall braine.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 To sequester out of the world into Atlantick and Eutopian polities..will not mend our condition.

1742 Common Sense 3 Apr. 1/3 These rambling Discourses, these Eutopian Schemes, these Reveries of a speculative Man.

1798 R. Proud Hist. Pennsylvania II. xxii. 108 The Eutopian imaginations of some shallow projectors, and rash schemers.

1815 Bury & Norwich Post 5 Apr. 56/3 We abound..with Eutopian Philosophers, and swaggering assertions without proof.

1897 Contemp. Rev. June 902 Is it, then, Utopian, or rather Eutopian, to found here our needed colonial college?

1939 L. Mumford in M. B. Schnapper Public Housing in Amer. 180 Unlike many earlier eutopian proposals, Howard's Garden City..was actually brought into existence.

2006 Irish Rev. 34 13 This dystopian tendency receded during a revival of eutopian writing.

1629 Let. in E. Bolton Cities Aduocate sig. A8^v Wise Sir Thomas Moore teacheth vs, vnder the names, and persons of his Eutopians, that victories, and atchieuements of wit are applauded, farre aboue those of forces.

1649 Enq. conc. obeying Change Govt. 7 The Eutopians may as well without scruple comply with these acts, as with the other Statute-laws of that Kingdome.

1733 ‘Atalia’ Court Legacy ii. 37 Eutopians all, learn to be wise.

1828 (title) The humours of Eutopia: a tale of colonial times, by an Eutopian.

1849 F. Chamier Rev. French Revol. II. i. 26 The three dangerous Eutopians, Proudhon, Leroux, and Lagrange.

1913 Proc. 7th Ann. Meeting Assoc. Life Insurance Presidents 98 Dr. Smith being a hard-headed, reasonable, scientific man, is no Eutopian.

2003 L. T. Sargent in T. Moylan & R. Baccolini Dark Horizons xii. 228 There are eutopians who address all the problems outlined above and conclude that those who now benefit should pay the costs of eutopia.