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Sibylline

adjective
1.
Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.  Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical.  "Mantic powers" , "A kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
2.
Having a secret or hidden meaning.  Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic.  "Cryptic writings" , "Thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"





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"Sibylline" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Sibylline books? How often they were offered, and the terms? It is not too late, Messer Blondel—even now. While there is life there is hope, there is more than hope. There ...
— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman
... SIBYLLES ANTIQUES; concerning the sibyls, sibylline books, and sibylline leaves consult a classical dictionary. 23. VERBE; used currently for the second person of the Trinity; here it goes back to a passage in the first division of the poem, where speaking of God's process of ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield


Words linked to "Sibylline" :   prophetical, esoteric, prophetic


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