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Circæan

Circæan is the obsolete form of Circean.

Meaning of Circean

Adjective

Circean (comparative more Circean, superlative most Circean)

  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?1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, II.2

Forms of Circæan

comparativemore Circæan
superlativemost Circæan

Questions about Circæan

What is Circæan the obsolete form of?
Circæan is the obsolete form of Circean.

Words near Circæan in the dictionary

  1. circussed
  2. circusses
  3. circussing
  4. circussy
  5. circusy
  6. Circæan
  7. cire
  8. cire perdue
  9. Cirebon
  10. Cirelli
  11. Cirellis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Circæan (page history and authors); Circean (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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