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Caliban

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Cal·i·ban  (kl-bn)
n.
The satellite of Uranus that is 16th in distance from the planet.
[After Caliban, the slave in Shakespeare's The Tempest.]
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"You are a sort of monster," I added audaciously, "a Caliban who has pondered Setebos, and who acts as you act, in idle moments, by whim and fancy.
The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context
If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
You are still yourself as now, and yet you are yourself no longer; you who, like Ariel, verge on the angelic, are but an inert mass, which, like Caliban, verges on the brutal; and this is called in human tongues, as I tell you, neither more nor less than apoplexy.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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