"Circean poison" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "After the Greek mythological figure of Circe, who (in the Odyssey) tempted men to excess before turning them into pigs.",
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          "ref": "1926, Essays in memory of Barrett Wendell, page 77",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A poison or potion that changes the body but not the mind."
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          "ref": "1834, Thomas Carlyle, \"The Death of Edward Irving,\" essay from Fraser's Magazine 61 (1834)http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carlyle/irving.html",
          "text": "O foulest Circean draught, thou poison of Popular Applause! madness is in thee, and death; thy end is Bedlam and the Grave."
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          "ref": "1878, John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, page 242",
          "text": "\"Is not this herd,\" he continues, \"worse than Circean poison?\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, John Ruskin, St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice Written for the Help of the Few ..., page 236",
          "text": "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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        "Anything magically (and fatally) captivating, such as a potion or applause."
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          "applause",
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      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
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  "word": "Circean poison"
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  "etymology_text": "After the Greek mythological figure of Circe, who (in the Odyssey) tempted men to excess before turning them into pigs.",
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          "ref": "1926, Essays in memory of Barrett Wendell, page 77",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1834, Thomas Carlyle, \"The Death of Edward Irving,\" essay from Fraser's Magazine 61 (1834)http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carlyle/irving.html",
          "text": "O foulest Circean draught, thou poison of Popular Applause! madness is in thee, and death; thy end is Bedlam and the Grave."
        },
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          "ref": "1878, John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, page 242",
          "text": "\"Is not this herd,\" he continues, \"worse than Circean poison?\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "1908, John Ruskin, St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice Written for the Help of the Few ..., page 236",
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