sibylline.
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Meaning & usage
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
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.
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books. 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.)
Where this word comes from
From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.
One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.
Where this word comes from
From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.
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