sibylline
['sibili:n]
a. 女巫, 预言性



sibylline
[ adj ]

1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy

<adj.all>
the high priest's divinatory pronouncement
mantic powers
a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions

2. having a secret or hidden meaning

<adj.all>
cabalistic symbols engraved in stone
cryptic writings
thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements

Sibylline \Sib"yl*line\, 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.