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to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson.

Divisional.

Provisional. Burke.

Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.

Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [Poetic] M. Arnold.

Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.

iece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook. Castle in the air, a visionary project; a baseless scheme; an air castle; -- sometimes called a castle in Spain (F. Château en Espagne).

Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.

o be in disfavor. -- In the clouds, in the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary.

A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy; a vagary; a revery; -- in this sense, applied to an imaginary or anticipated state of happiness; as, a dream of bliss; the dream of his youth. There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream. Pope. It is not them a mere dream, bu…

A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.

Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy. -- En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv. A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W. Irving.

uided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.

Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.

Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal. "Planning ideal common wealth." Southey.

One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.

Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity (Alg.), an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking…

ality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.

A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory. E. Everett. The world grew light-headed, and forth came a spawn of isms which no man can number. S. G. Goodrich.