sibylline

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
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.)

noun

/ˈsɪbɪlaɪn/ En-us-sibylline.oga

sibylline sybilline sibyllines

From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.

sibyllic enigmatic

Sibylline Oracles

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