a. Also 7 Circæan. [a. L. Circæ-us, f. CIRCE: see -AN.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling the enchantress Circe.
1607. Dekker, Westw. Hoe, II. ii. C 4 b. Had thy Circean Magick me transformd Into that sensuall shape for which thou Coniurst, And that I were turn’d common Venturer, I could not loue this old man.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xiii. (1851), 441. Like men inchanted with the Circæan cup of servitude.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., III. 48. More pow’rful than of old Circean charm?
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., III. xxiii. 567. When we had drunk deeper of the Circean draught.
