Word Finder - chimerical

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Of or pertaining to a chimera.

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Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).

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a chimerical goal

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Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.

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Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.

Biot - who loved and admired him as a son - publicly announced that his enterprise was chimerical and the problem insoluble; Dumas evidently thought so too, for he advised Pasteur not to spend more of his time on such a subject.

In his Autobiography he admits that the attempt to form a Radical party in parliament at that time was chimerical.

Bochart was a man of profound erudition; he possessed a thorough knowledge of the principal Oriental languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldaic and Arabic; and at an advanced age he wished to learn Ethiopic. He was so absorbed in his favourite study, that he saw Phoenician and nothing but Phoenician in everything, even in Celtic words, and hence the number of chimerical etymologies which swarm in his works.

Ideas of world revolution appear profoundly chimerical to virtually everyone in the Soviet Union today.

Table III., showing orchestral pitches obtained in 1899, for the measurements of which the writer is responsible, prove how chimerical it is to hope for greater accuracy than is found between 435 and 440 vibrations a second for a', inasmuch as temperature must always be reckoned with.

This vigorous despot, whose ambi- Henry vI tions were not all chimerical, had succeeded where his predecessors, including Frederick, had failed.

Joseph de Maistre believed in comets as messengers of divine justice, and in animated planets, and declared that divination by astrology is not an absolutely chimerical science.

With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe's plan chimerical.

Faust turns back to the crazy primitive world of the witches ' sabbath and to a chimerical vision of classical antiquity.

This point of view suggested numerous projects, as chimerical as they were generous; two millions sterling (50 million francs) were expended with a view to installing Parisian unemployed workmen as colonists, but this attempt failed miserably.

From the moment that Arnold of Brescia, absorbed in his chimerical project of reviving the ancient Roman republic, disregarded the imperial power and neglected to shelter himself behind the German in his conflict with the priesthood, his failure was certain and his fate foredoomed.