Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The satellite of Uranus that is 16th in distance from the planet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Shakspere's play “The Tempest,” a “savage and deformed” slave of Prospero, represented as the offspring of the devil and the witch Sycorax; hence, figuratively, a person of a low, bestial nature.
Etymologies
- After Caliban, the slave in The Tempest by William Shakespeare. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“Cassio has a "daily beauty" in him that makes Iago ugly by comparison, Caliban is obvious I suppose but \I am inclined not to grant y = the teat awk tragic status even diabolically tragic.”
“The inchoate rage of Caliban is obvious just add mobile phones, but I am inclined not to grant the Great Awk tragic status, even of a diabolical kind.”
“At the same time, Jason Flemyng’s look as Caliban is more practical using make-up FX, and you have an animatronic Medusa head, so how important is it to use practical in-camera FX whenever possible rather than CGI?”
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“Pinfold, a middle-aged writer living in the country, goes abroad because he is already in poor health, but from the moment he enters his cabin on a ship called the Caliban, bound for Ceylon, he hears voices denigrating him.”
“The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge, because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax.”
“The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax.”
“It is a mistake to call Caliban's theology a study of primitive religion; for primitive religion is inseparable from the primitive tribe, and Caliban the savage, who has never known society, was a conception as unhistorical as it was exquisitely adapted to the individualist ways of Browning's imagination.”
“The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Scyorax.”
“Not to be tiresome, I shall say that I fetched the book from his state-room and read "Caliban" aloud.”
“Caliban," had commenced to reveal glimpses of his unhandsome character;”
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