sibylline

Meanings

Plural: sibyllines

Adjective Satellite

• resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
  • "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
• having a secret or hidden meaning; ; ; - John Gunther
  • "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"

Adj

• Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
• Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
• Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
• Occult, mysterious.
• Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
• Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)

Noun

• One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.

Synonyms

cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, divinatory, enigmatic, kabbalistic, mantic, qabalistic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical

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