sirenical
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sirenical (comparative more sirenical, superlative most sirenical)
- Like, or appropriate to, a siren; deceptive; fascinating.
- c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv:
- [H]ere's a couple of Syrenicall raſcals ſhall inchaunt yee: What ſhall they ſinge my good Lorde?
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sirenical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)