sibylline : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sibylline	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sibylline
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sibylline 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" Synonym(s): divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther Synonym(s): cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sibylline \Sib"ylline\, 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.