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a. [ See Toplary. ] Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening. [ R. ] “The topiarian artist.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the pedantries of the topiarian art. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. topiarius belonging to ornamental gardening, fr. topia (sc. opera) ornamental gardening, fr. Gr. &unr_; a place. ] Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

Topiary work, arbors, shrubbery, hedges, or the like, cut and trimmed into fanciful forms, as of animals, buildings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. not + &unr_; a place. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism. [ 1913 Webster ]