Don Quixotic

Don-Quixotic English Alternative forms en Don-Quixotic Etymology From en Don Quixote ic. Adjective 1 en quixotic. en The Secret Expedition. A Farce; (in Two Acts) as It Has Been Represented upon the Political Theatre of Europe. With the Highest Applause. London Printed forJ. Scott,in Pater-noster Row 1757 19 We ſhall not be authorized, to anſwer for any ſuch Don Quixotic Schemes—Fair and ſoftly go far. en John C[harles] Peters American Editor’s Preface A Treatise on Apoplexy: With an Appendix on Softening of the Brain, and Paralysis. Based on Th. J. Rückert’s Clinical Experience in Homœopathy. New York, N.Y. William Radde,No. 322 Broadway 1852 vi while in all those, not very rare cases, which are necessarily and essentially fatal from the onset, he [the physician] will quickly reject all Don Quixotic and enthusiastic attempts at cure, and limit his endeavors to the palliation of present suffering. en Marvin B. Sussman Women’s Roles in Mythic Tradition and a Planetary Culture Beth B. Hess; Marvin B. Sussman Women and the Family: Two Decades of Change New York, N.Y.; London The Haworth Press 1984 5 0-86656-291-5 Concomitant with this illumination is the acceptance and implementation of behaviors endemic with new paradigms, those which lead to a transformed culture and society, those which lead to horizontal connectedness with multiple prospects for rooting deeply, fostering a balanced, systematic and sensible relationship between needs and resources, rather than vertical, hierarchial structures rooted in power and control. There is a Don Quixotic tone to this posture, at first blush. en eponyms