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adj
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: sibyllic
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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, not-comparable
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Synonyms: sibyllic
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adj
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Occult, mysterious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, not-comparable
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Synonyms: sibyllic, enigmatic
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adj
Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
having a secret or hidden meaning- John Gunther
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical
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adjective satellite
resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical
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History
From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.
Across languages
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