Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
CHIMERICAL
chimerical
(adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; “his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists”- Douglas Bush
chimeric, chimerical, chimeral
(adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera; “his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists”- Douglas Bush
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
chimerical (comparative more chimerical, superlative most chimerical)
Of or pertaining to a chimera.
Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
Anagrams
• cimeliarch
Source: Wiktionary
Chi*mer"ic*al, a.
Definition: Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
Syn.
– Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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