"Don Quixotic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1757, The Secret Expedition. A Farce; (in Two Acts) as It Has Been Represented upon the Political Theatre of Europe. With the Highest Applause., London: […] J. Scott, […], page 19:",
          "text": "We ſhall not be authorized, to anſwer for any ſuch Don Quixotic Schemes—Fair and ſoftly go far.",
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          "ref": "1852, John C[harles] Peters, “American Editor’s Preface”, in 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, […], page vi:",
          "text": "[…]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.",
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          "ref": "1984, Marvin B. Sussman, “Women’s Roles in Mythic Tradition and a Planetary Culture”, in Beth B. Hess, Marvin B. Sussman, editors, Women and the Family: Two Decades of Change, New York, N.Y., London: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 5:",
          "text": "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.",
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