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chimera
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Definition:1. (Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
photo: By Lampas Group - Jastrow (2006), CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20086573
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The principles of every religion are founded upon the idea of a GOD. Now, it is impossible to have true ideas of a being, who acts upon none of our senses. All our ideas are representations of sensible objects. What then can represent to us the idea of God, which is evidently an idea without an object? Is not such an idea as impossible, as an effect without a cause? Can an idea without an archetype be anything, but a chimera?
Baron D'Holbach. Good Sense (1772)
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with many other wild, impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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During the intervening period I had no time to nurse chimeras; and I believe I was as active and gay as anybody—Adèle excepted.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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My joy at having possessed a little of Albertine’s intelligence and of her heart arose not from their intrinsic worth, but from the fact that this possession was a stage farther towards the complete possession of Albertine, a possession which had been my goal and my chimera, since the day on which I first set eyes on her.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 6] The Sweet Cheat Gone
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.533, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/533/mode/1up
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