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Circean

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to Circe, the Greek goddess, who first charmed her victims and then changed them into animals; hence, alluring but dangerous or degrading.

    "Is it then surprizing […] that an empty mind should be employed only to vary the pleasures, which emasculated her circean court?"

Etymology

From Latin Circaeus + -an. By surface analysis, Circe + -ean.

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