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Sibylline Definitions

What Does Sibylline Mean

Sibyllineadjective

Coming from, characteristic of, or relating to a sibyl.

Sibyllineadjective

Prophetic; oracular.

Sibyllineadjective

Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.

Sibyllineadjective

(by extension) Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.

Sibyllineadjective

(by extension) Occult, mysterious.

Sibyllineadjective

Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)

Sibyllinenoun

One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.

Sibyllineadjective

resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy;

the high priest's divinatory pronouncement

mantic powers

a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions

Sibyllineadjective

having a secret or hidden meaning;

cabalistic symbols engraved in stone

cryptic writings

thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements

Sibyllineadjective

Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.

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