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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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" [syn: {divinatory}, {mantic},
{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
[syn: {cabalistic}, {cryptic}, {cryptical}]
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