chimeric

How To Use chimeric In A Sentence

• his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists
• The provocation you received from Sir James Wal - lace, and the fuppofed laws of honor, by which you were induced to become the avenger of your own wrong, in order to avoid what you call dif - grace, f alfe and chimerical notions of honor receive no countenance or indulgence from this court, it is contrary not only to the laws of God and humanity, but to the municipal laws of this, and every country throughout the globe. The trial of Lieutenant Charles Bourne : upon the prosecution of Sir James Wallace, Knt., for an assault : also the law pleadings, the arguments of counsel, and the speech of Mr. Justice Willes upon passing judgment
• Giving methotrexate concurrently, however, suppressed tachyphylaxis, probably by preventing the production of human antichimeric antibodies.
• But if the Israelis really do fear the loss of their deterrent from Lebanon — which is kind of chimerical; Israel is the regional superpower, and it says a lot that Hamas’s rockets are crude Qassams — then stopping now might play into the same psychodrama. Better Watch What You Say | ATTACKERMAN
• I'm really just using these as nominal labels for degrees of saturation or non-saturation with alethic quirks -- "mythic" for the point where the protagonist is themselves arcane/exotic/chimeric, "non-mythic" for the zones where the quirks are dissipated to the point of being subliminal or absent. A Theory of Modes and Modalities
• GM plants have been randomly altered with an assorted arrangement of chimeric genetic material by transfection using agrobacterium or bombarded by pellets of heavy metal. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
• That these inconveniencies and hardships kept them in a state of poverty and misery, and that the chief cause of all their calamities was the strict adherence of the Trustees to their chimerical and impracticable scheme of settlement, by which the people were refused the obvious means of subsistence, and cut off from all prospects of success. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2
• Grotesque; spined and tusked, spiked and antlered, wenned and breasted; as chimerically angled, cusped and cornute as though they were the superangled, supercornute gods of the cusped and angled gods of the Javanese, they strove against the sledge-headed and smiting, the multiarmed and blasting square towers. The Metal Monster
• All these vague and divergent points on which my eyes rested made more distant apparently than if it had been separated from us by several streets or by a series of foothills the house of Mme. de Plassac, actually quite near but chimerically remote as in an Alpine landscape. The Guermantes Way
• For those who just walked into this movie, Jolie Holland is a San Francisco-based alt-country songbird who quietly burst on the scene with the chimerical field recording of 2003's Catalpa.