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An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.

The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.

An Utopian; an optimist.

ndays" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

l and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed. Robynson (More's Utopia).

motives; base occupations. "A cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind." Robynson (More's Utopia). "Base ingratitude." Milton.

den. [Obs.] I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

ess fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matt. xxvi. 73.

d, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More's Utopia. )

metimes with up. Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. Robynson (More's Utopia).

e, or arrive, without design or expectation. "Things that chance daily." Robynson (More's Utopia). If a bird's nest chance to be before thee. Deut. xxii. 6. I chanced on this letter. Shak.

of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

ginal; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin. "No counterfeit gem." Robinson (More's Utopia).

Cowardly. [Obs.] " A base and a cowardish mind." Robynson (More's Utopia).

hak. Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. Robynson (More's Utopia).

ulleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. "(As we say) at a dead lift." Robynson (More's Utopia). -- Dead line (Mil.), a line drawn within or around a military prison, to cross which involves for a prisoner the penalty of being instantly shot. -- Dead load (Civil Engin.), a constant, motionless load, as the weight o…

entific term. They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature. Robynson (More's Utopia).

ing thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. -- To dig from, out of, out, or up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a…

degrade; to abase; to weaken. This doth nothing diminish their opinion. Robynson (More's Utopia). I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezek. xxix. 15. O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. Milton.