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Definition of Chimerically
1. adv. Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
Definition of Chimerically
1. Adverb. In a chimerical manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chimerically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chimerically
Literary usage of Chimerically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethics of Literature by John A. Kersey (1894)
"The various results of the influences of external agencies affecting the subject
are their various and chimerically constructed creeds, ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The whole matter being so much of a chimera, how can it be painted otherwise than
chimerically ? Of the following passage one thing is true, that a creature ..."
3. The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of the Pioneer Trading by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1901)
"It was also, though probably unwisely, a rule not to supply the Indians on credit,
hoping, rather chimerically, to inculcate habits of thrift in this way. ..."
4. The History of British India by James Mill (1848)
"... suffering tamely the insolence of its meanest officers. rather than venture
to make resistance against a power which they chimerically imagined to be ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1883)
"Sometimes they are esteemed preternaturally cordial; sometimes chimerically hostile.
The news of the occurrence at Tamatave, which reached England between ..."
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