Meanings
- not comparablevisionary; imaginary; lacking foundation in reality
But neither the justice of Kennaston's airdrawn surmises, nor their wildness, matters; the point is that they made of him a vestryman who in appearance and speech and actions, and in essential beliefs, differed not at all from his associates […]
1917, James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest, page 1681 more example
[…] but there are some hints which, considering what afterwards did take place, lead me to suspect that even thus early the writer contemplated the possibility at least of being himself very intimately connected with the result of these airdrawn schemes.
1837, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, page 319
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