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Definition of Airdrawn
1. a. Drawn in air; imaginary.
Definition of Airdrawn
1. visionary [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airdrawn
Literary usage of Airdrawn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"... distil you an ' Astral Spirit' from the ashes, which was the very image of
the old burnt article, its airdrawn counterpart. This you had, or might get, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.. by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"... even thus early the writer contemplated the possibility at least of being
himself very intimately connected with the result of these airdrawn schemes. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... which was the very image of the old burnt article, its airdrawn counterpart,—this
you still had, or might get, and draw uses from, if you could. ..."
4. The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke by Hugh A. Garland (1851)
"... than by the fumes of his own vanity, this poo.r old gentleman saw a visionary
coronet suspended over his brow, and an airdrawn sceptre “the handle ..."
5. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1877)
"If the distinction on which pa- rol evidence is received in Pennsylvania, be not
airdrawn, it is so thin, that the courts have not been consistent in its ..."
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