v. Obs. [f. CHIMERA + -IZE.] intr. To indulge in chimeras, to foster wild and unfounded fancies. Hence Chimerizing ppl. a.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, VI. 316. This defect is a certayne vayne and chimerizing discoursing, by which men build Castels in the ayre, and frame vnto themselves mountaynes of gold.
1626. [W. Vaughan], trans. Boccalini’s New-found Politicke, 226 (T.). Sophisticall Dreames, and Chymerizing Ideas of shallow imaginatiue Schollers.
1651. Howell, Venice, 187. I found him chimerising within himself how he might make it possible to render the Popedom electif, [etc.].
