chimæra

• But surely collectivism is a chimæra, an utopia, a thing impossible. —  The Cult of Incompetence
• (_M. chimæra_.) —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
• "Spontaneous generation is only a chimæra. —  Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
• Why, if it were not for the keepers, there soon would not be a single griffin or dragon left, not a single sphinx, not a single chimæra. —  Tales of Fantasy and Fact
• I do not examine them, as I have just said, but I examine myself to see whether I too may perhaps be a monster, more complicated and therefore more disordered than the chimæra, more savage than Typhon, or whether I represent a more docile and simple being, to whom some particle of a virtuous and divine nature has been given. " —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms