Circean poison
nounEtymology
After the Greek mythological figure of Circe, who (in the Odyssey) tempted men to excess before turning them into pigs.
Definitions
A poison or potion that changes the body but not the mind.
- And the riven Tree in the West withered; and the broken Car was changed by the Circean poison of the golden plumes into a two-natured monster, half-bird, half-beast — a mockery of the holy Griffin.
Anything magically (and fatally) captivating, such as a potion or applause.
- O foulest Circean draught, thou poison of Popular Applause! madness is in thee, and death; thy end is Bedlam and the Grave.
- "Is not this herd," he continues, "worse than Circean poison?"
- So soon the worm that dies not is also upon him—in its fang Circean poison to make the victim one with his plague...
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Circean poison. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA