Sirenaic

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noun

A member of the celebrated Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen, a club that met at the Mermaid Tavern in Elizabethan London.

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Meanings

nounSirenaic (plural Sirenaics)

plural Sirenaics

  1. historicalrareA member of the celebrated Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen, a club that met at the Mermaid Tavern in Elizabethan London.

    In September 1611 the Sirenaics were among the company of wits who gathered at the Mitre Tavern to celebrate the exploits of another fearless traveller, the scribbler and buffoon Thomas Coryate...

    2012, Ian Donaldson, “Life of Ben Jonson”, in Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online

Origin

From blending of siren + Cyrenaic (“inhabitant of the proverbially luxurious city of Cyrene or its territory Cyrenaica; adherent of the hedonistic philosophy of Aristippus of Cyrene”) and from conflation of the mythical siren with the legendary mermaid.

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APA

Sirenaic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sirenaic

MLA

“Sirenaic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sirenaic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sirenaic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sirenaic.

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