sibylline
IPA: sˈɪbɪɫaɪn
noun
- One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
- (by extension) Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
- (by extension) Occult, mysterious.
- Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
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Examples of "sibylline" in Sentences
- Do you believe in sibylline events
- It is as old as the Sibylline books.
- Anyway, Sibylline redirects to Sibyl.
- The sibylline phenomenon was observed.
- How many sibylline stories do you know
- She likes to listen to sibylline stories.
- Twelve books of Sibylline Oracles survive.
- Deflated Chime, Foals Slightly Flower Sibylline Responses.
- Some people think that the existence of aliens is sibylline.
- She has a kind of sibylline intuition and the right to be irrationally
- It is an inward and sibylline sound of swazzle notes and speaking stones.
- Are Sibyl, Sibylline Books and Sibylline Oracles being kept clear and distinct
- It's all there, and, thanks to Simak's skilled hand at the wheel, it's all in place: suave, sibylline, swift.
- You will grow up to be quite a reprobate, my scandalous pup—a favourite with the ladies … and the gentlemen, he predicted in a sibylline voice.
- Perhaps, if one extrapolates from Obama's sibylline statement: Mitt Romney gives the impression of being too much of a secularist and not enough a Christian or too much the supporter of a cult?
- Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine.
- The cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine.
- "Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery.
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