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chimerical

Johnson's 1755 Dictionary defines chimerical as: "Imaginary; fanciful; wildly, vainly, or fantastically conceived; fantastick."

Johnson also reminds his readers of the origin of the root: "the poetical chimera, a monster feigned to have the head of a lion, the belly of a goat, and the tail of a dragon."

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