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- adjective Of or pertaining to Circe, the Greek
goddess , a mythological enchantress who first charmed her victims and then changed them into animals. - adjective by extension
pleasing butdangerous
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Examples
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Through a curtain of subtle bubbles within the water's Circean caress swims a trio of ornamental, brodcaded
Sakana 2008
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I have thus described and illustrated my intellectual torpor in terms that apply more or less to every part of the four years during which I was under the Circean spells of opium.
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Ah! hapless voyagers, gazing with simple wonder on these Circean shores!
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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If the artist will stoop to linger in the Circean hall of the senses, he must not be astonished if good and earnest men should reproach him with the triviality of a misspent and egotistic life.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Dusty car and ringing rail wore no Circean graces, when the long-haired mermaid, decked in robes of comely green, looked out from her bower beneath the waves, and beckoned me to come.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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Circean spell, having cast common-sense and prudence to the winds, and decided to be ruled henceforth by the man who can tickle our ears with the longest speeches and the smoothest words.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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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.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Such men are the dwellers in the halls of Circean senses; they can appreciate only the sensuous.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Oh, brothers! friends! shake off the Circean spell!
War Poetry of the South Various
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Coming to men with the Circean torch of licentiousness in her hand, with fair promises of freedom, she first stupefies the conscience, and brutifies the affections; and then renders her votaries the most abject slaves of guilt and crime.
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