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Circe(encyclopedia)
Circe(dictionary)
Circe effect(medicine)

mythicize (iou) and Circe (iou)


mythicize (iou)



mythicize verb trans. Also mythicise. M19.
[from MYTHIC + -IZE.]
Turn into myth or a myth; interpret mythically.
New Statesman Accepting that imperialism itself is a lost cause, we are mythicising its administrators. D. Cupitt Jesus had been mythicised by the religious imagination of the early Christians.
mythici'zation noun L20.
mythicizer noun M19.

Circe (iou)



Circe noun. LME.
[Latin Circe, Greek Kirke, an enchantress in Greek mythol.]
A dangerously attractive enchantress, a witch.
Circean adjective bewitching, dangerously attractive E17.