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Alnaschar|ælˈnæʃə(r)|
The name of a beggar in the ‘Arabian Nights’ who destroys his means of livelihood because he indulges in visions of riches and grandeur; applied allusively to a person given to such illusions. Also attrib. Hence Alˈnascharism; Alˈnascharize v. intr.
1712Addison Spect. No. 535 13 Nov., Alnaschar was entirely swallowed up in this chimerical Vision. 1812M. Edgeworth Tales Fash. Life IV. i. 13 With maternal Alnascharism, she had, in her reveries, thrown back her head with disdain, as she repulsed the family advances of some wealthy, but low-born heiress. 1840New Monthly Mag. LIX. 349 Higgins had been Almascharizing [sic]—building chateaux en Espagne. 1840Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story vi. in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 236/2 ‘I'll..make designs hallusive of my passion for her.’ And so our pictorial Alnaschar dreamed and dreamed. 1849― Pendennis I. xxxiii. 329 What an Alnaschar I am because I have made five pounds by my poems. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Ruth I. ii. 55 She..was busy with Alnaschar visions of wide expenditure. 1896G. B. Shaw in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 205 Those delicious Alnaschar dreams. |