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Sibylline
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What's The Definition Of Sibylline?
[adj] having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
[adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sibylline: cabalistic | cryptic | cryptical | divinatory | esoteric | mantic | prophetic | prophetical | sibyllic | vatic | vatical Related Terms | Find terms related to Sibylline: See Also | Sibylline In Webster's Dictionary \Sib"yl*line\, a. [L. sibyllinus.]
Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by
sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.
{Sibylline books}.
(a) (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse
concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have
been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl.
(b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writings purporting to
have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date
from 100 b. c. to a. d. 500.
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