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chimeric, a.|kɪˈmɛrɪk, kaɪ-|
[f. chimera + -ic.]
1. = chimerical; imaginary, fanciful.
1653R. Baillie Dissuasive Vind. (1655) 84 Your Chimerick excommunication which your self has invented. 1732Swift Beasts' Confess., Rise by merit to promotion; Alas! a mere chimeric notion. 1872Browning Fifine iii. 6 With no chimeric claim to supermundane birth.
2. Of the nature of a chimera; chimera-like.
1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps v. §21. 158 The irises of the eyes of its chimeric monsters being cut boldly into holes. |