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Definition
something imagined, but not possible — often an idea requiring an impossible combination
- His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived, however chimerical the cause of it might be, was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.Chapter 2 — The Curse of the Baskervilles (92% in)
There are no more uses of "chimera" in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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