Circe
noun
Also the enchantress represented by Homer as turning the companions of Odysseus into swine by means of a magic drink.
Circean
-
a word derived from
Circe.
Example Sentences
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They looked, the one an angel with a sense of humour, the other Circean with an eye to the conventions, both as smart as Paris could make them.
From The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
At every dissolving smile of her Circean ladyship, she thought she beheld the intoxicating cup at the lips of Thaddeus, and dreaded its effect.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
She also pink-pinked Cleo's ukelele, according to Circean traditions.
From The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening by Lilian Garis
Glancing my eyes athwart the sea, I fixed them on the Circean promontory, which lies right opposite to Terracina, joined to the continent by a very narrow strip of land, and appearing like an island.
From Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents by William Beckford
I have hitherto been a zealous opponent of the Circean herb, but I shall now reexamine the question without bias.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various
