Vocabulary Word
Word: chimerical
Definition: fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; N. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature
Definition: fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; N. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature
Sentences Containing 'chimerical'
The debtors of such a bank as that whose conduct I have been giving some account of were likely, the greater part of them, to be chimerical projectors, the drawers and redrawers of circulating bills of exchange, who would employ the money in extravagant undertakings, which, with all the assistance that could be given them, they would probably never be able to complete, and which, if they should be completed, would never repay the expense which they had really cost, would never afford a fund capable of maintaining a quantity of labour equal to that which had been employed about them.
This account of the bank of Amsterdam, however, it will appear hereafter, is in a great measure chimerical.
It would be altogether chimerical, therefore, to expect that the public debt should ever be completely discharged, by any savings which are likely to be made from that ordinary revenue as it stands at present.
Such a speculation, can, at worst, be regarded but as a new Utopia, less amusing, certainly, but no more useless and chimerical than the old one.
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