Meaning of Circean poison | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A poison or potion that changes the body but not the mind.
   uncountable
2. Anything magically (and fatally) captivating, such as a potion or applause.
   uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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...”

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