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Sorceress encountered by Odysseus
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circe
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Word definitions for circe in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Greek mythology English) An enchantress who turned Odysseus' men into pigs. 2 (context astronomy English) Short for (w: 34 Circe), a main belt asteroid.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enchantress of the isle of Aea who transformed into swine those who drank from her cup ("Odyssey"), late 14c., from Latin Circe , from Greek Kirke . Related: Circean .
Usage examples of circe.
And he ordained that by the counsels of Aeaean Circe they should cleanse themselves from the terrible stain of blood and suffer countless woes before their return.
Tiresias and Aeaean Circe too: time and again they told me to shun this island of the Sun, the joy of man.
Polydeuces and Castor pray to the immortal gods first to grant a path through the Ausonian sea where they should find Circe, daughter of Perse and Helios.
There are the episodes of Ulysses and Calypso, Ulysses and Circe, Numa and Egeria, Rinaldo and Armida, Prince Ahmed and Peri Banou.
Circe and Maskelyne, standing beside Gowen, stopped their questioning, and they too looked toward Galen.
He supported his argument by asserting that the writer was clearly more familiar with homelife than the sea and contending that Nausicaa used the story to frame portraits of the great Greek heroines: Calypso, Circe, and Penelope, for instance.
CIRCE against us implies that our beachheads have indeed trapped one or more of its components out of their reach.
Soon they would find themselves facing CIRCE, and the Peacekeepers would have the final word.
The Peacekeepers could take the time to well and properly seal the tectonic station, and this potential threat to a possible CIRCE component would be finished.
But even as he envisioned those invulnerable Zhirrzh warships armed with CIRCE weapons, the face of Melinda Cavanagh floated into view.
Circe couldn't maintain her braced chokehold on Standing Bear without risking breaking Alacrity's neck in the press.
Like that witch Circe, oft besung, Thou hast dear gifts, if thou wouldst give.
A voyage of this kind is by no means an easy undertaking, when there are Circes and Calypsos assailing one on every side.
But at least the next stop was Aeaea, where Odysseus had promised to get them a good feasting with plenty of meat and sweet wine from Circe.
On their route back to Hellas, Medea and Jason stopped at Aeaea, the isle of the enchantress Circe, who was Medea's aunt and sister to King Aeëtes.