Circe
noun
Also the enchantress represented by Homer as turning the companions of Odysseus into swine by means of a magic drink.
Circean
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a word derived from
Circe.
Example Sentences
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Shame to him when he dallies in the Circean Hall of the senses!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
The Circean poison, whether drunk from the clearest crystal or the coarsest clay, alike intoxicates and makes beasts of men.
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Apple-blossom powdered her lap and starred her light-brown hair, and around them like a Circean perfume drowning the actual world hung the odorous thickets of hawthorn.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
I hear that there are considerable emigrations from France,—and that many, quitting that voluptuous climate, and that seductive Circean liberty, have taken refuge in the frozen regions and under the British despotism of Canada.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Leaving the 'men of the senses' in their Circean sleep, we proceed to question the 'men of the schools' with regard to their conception of art, their definition of the Beautiful.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
