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Definition: CIRCEAN |
CIRCEANAdjective1. Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught. |
Date "CIRCEAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
Etymology: Circean \Cir*ce"an\, adjective. [Latin expression Circaeus.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intemperance | Circean cup. |
Sorcery | Adjective: magic, magical; mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory; charmed; Verb: Circean, odylic, voodoo. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "CIRCEAN": Circean cup. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Words rhyming with "CIRCEAN" (pronounced 'Cir*ce"an'): Achean, Achillean, Adamantean, Adonean, AEgean, Alloxan, Amebean, Amoebean, Amphigean, Andean, Antaean, Anthozoan, Apogean, Archimedean, Argean, Argoan, Assidean, Astraean, Atlantean, Augean, Basan, Biscayan, Bryozoan, Cabirean, Cadmean, Chaldean, Chian, Chouan, Clachan, Colossean, Cowan, Cyclopean, Cytherean, Dantean, Genian, Gigantean, Iroquoian, Lernean, Lethean, Lochan, Logan, Lyncean, Maccabean, Mausolean, Medicean, metazoan, Murexan, Neogaean, Nymphean, OEnocyan. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: cancer, carnie. | |
-2 letters: areic, cairn, caner, cerci, ceria, ceric, circa, crane, erica, nacre, naric, nicer, rance. | |
-3 letters: acne, acre, airn, cain, cane, care, carn, ceca, cine, cire, earn, narc, near, nice, race, rain, rani, rein, rice. | |
-4 letters: ace, ain, air, ane, ani, arc, are, can, car, ear, era, ern, ice, ire, nae, ran, rec. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: acentric, chancier, chicaner, cocinera. | |
+2 letters: accreting, accretion, anorectic, arccosine, calendric, chicaners, chicanery, circinate, cocineras, raincheck. | |
+3 letters: accretions, anorectics, anticancer, arccosines, cantatrice, carcinogen, cariogenic, chanceries, cochairmen, cocreating, concertina, covariance, inaccurate, pancreatic, rainchecks, reacceding, reaccusing, saccharine, vicariance. | |
+4 letters: accipitrine, accoutering, accrediting, acrocentric, anacreontic, antisecrecy, archangelic, areocentric, bacteriocin, brecciating, brecciation, calendrical, cantatrices, carcinogens, cardiogenic, carsickness, centrically, chanticleer, chicaneries, chiromancer, chrominance, circinately, coinsurance, concertinas, contractile, contractive, contrivance, covariances, discordance, discrepancy, electrician, encroaching, hypercapnic, incarcerate, intricacies, macronuclei, metacentric, monocracies, narcoleptic, necromantic, neocortical, nonclerical, preclinical, reaccenting, reaccepting, reaccession, recusancies, revaccinate, vicariances. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 49 52 43 45 41 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. .-. -.-. . .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001001 01010010 01000011 01000101 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C I R C E A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0049 0052 0043 0045 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37435237393548 |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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