a. [f. CHIMERA + -IC.] 1. = CHIMERICAL; imaginary, fanciful.
1653. R. Bailie, Dissuasive Vind. (1655), 84. Your Chimerick excommunication which your self has invented.
1732. Swift, Beasts’ Confess. Rise by merit to promotion; Alas! a mere chimeric notion.
1872. Browning, Fifine, iii. 6. With no chimeric claim to supermundane birth.
2. Of the nature of a chimera; chimera-like.
1849. Ruskin, Sev. Lamps, v. § 21. 158. The irises of the eyes of its chimeric monsters being cut boldly into holes.
