Found 2 items, similar to Sibylline.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sibylline
sibylline
adj 1: 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” [syn:
divinatory,
mantic,
sibyllic,
vatic,
vatical]
2: having a secret or hidden meaning;
“cabalistic symbols
engraved in stone”;
“cryptic writings”;
“thoroughly
sibylline in most of his pronouncements”- John Gunther
[syn:
cabalistic,
kabbalistic,
qabalistic,
cryptic,
cryptical]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sibylline
Sibylline
\Sib"yl*line\, a. [L. sibyllinus.]
Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by
sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]