laputan
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
La·pu′tan adjective
Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. “Laputan ideas.” pseud. of Mary Ann
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54