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sibylline a. 女巫的,预言性的 女巫的,预言性的 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" [synonym: {divinatory}, {mantic}, {sibylline}, {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 [synonym: {cabalistic}, {kabbalistic}, {qabalistic}, {cryptic}, {cryptical}, {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]
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