See octopian on Wiktionary
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"text": "But darker still the shadows gather round, / And further deepen, when no outlet's found / By which the pent-up stream may overflow, / And on the stricken heart relief bestow. / When poignant Grief, with its octopian arms, / Enthrals its victim, […]",
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"ref": "1910, Electrical Review and Western Electrician, page 97:",
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"ref": "2007, A. K. Otterness, Tales from Inside the Boerarrium, page 2:",
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"text": "These slippages have characteristically drawn the attention of Derrida, who categorizes the many oddities involved in the category of human uniqueness and, for that matter, in the very words human and animal themselves. If an octopus divided the world into the octopian and everything else, would that make sense?",
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