Utopia (utopia)

[F. Utopie; 3. Any imaginary region. Some say it [the Phœnix] liveth in A ethiopia, others in Arabia, some in Aegypt, others in India, and some I thinke in Utopia , for such must that be which is described by Lac tanti us-that is, which neither was singed in the combustion of Phaeton, or overwhelmed by the inundation of Deucalion. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 12. 4. In entom., a genus of coleopterous insects. Thomson, 1864. Utopian (u-to'pi-an), a. and n. [ Utopian parity is a kind of government to be wished for, rather than effected. Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 64. 3. [1. c.] Belonging to no locality: as, "titular and utopian bishops," Bingham, Antiquities, iv. 6. II. n. 1. An inhabitant of Utopia. Such subtile opinions as few but Utopians are likely to fall into we in this climate do not greatly fear. Hooker , Eccles. Polity. 2. [ l. c.] One who forms or favors schemes supposed to lead to a state of perfect happine , justice, virtue, etc.; an ardent but impractical political or social reformer; an optimist. utopianism (u-to'pi-an-izm), n. [ Utopianism : that is another of the devil's pet words. I believe the quiet admi ion which we are all of us so ready to make, that because things have long been wrong, it is impo ible they should ever be right, is one of the most fatal sources of misery and crime. Ruskin , Architecture and Painting, ii. utopianizer (u-tō'pi-an-i-zèr), n. [ utopian + -iz -er.] Same as utopian , n., 2. Southey, The Doctor, eexli. Also spelled utopianiser . [Rare.] utopiast (u-to'pi-ast), n. [ utopia + -ast .] A utopian. (Rare.] But it is the weakne of Utopiasts of every cla to place themselves outside the pale of their own system. Westminster Rev. , CXXVII. 130. utopicalt (ū-top'i-kal), a. [ It is utopism to believe that the state will have more unity, more harmony, more patriotisnı, because you have suppre ed the family and property. Cyc, Pol. Sci., III. 258. utopist (u'tō-pist), n. [ Like the utopists of modern days, Plato has developed an a prior i theory of what the State should be. G. H. Lewes, History of Philosophy (ed. 1880), I. 273. Utraquism (ū'tra-kwizm), n. [ , neut. pl. of uterque , both, one and the other, also each, either ( uter , each, either (see whe ther1 ), + -que , and), + -ism .] The doctrines of the Utraquists or Calix tines, whose chief tenet was that communicants should partake in both kinds (that is, of the cup as well as of the bread) in the Lord's Supper. See Calixtine1 .