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 sibyl ['sibil]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 女巫, 女算命者, 女预言家



    sibyl
    [ noun ]
    1. a woman who tells fortunes

    2. <noun.person>
    3. (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet

    4. <noun.person>


    Sibyl \Sib"yl\, n. [L. sibylla, Gr. ????.]
    1. (Class. Antiq.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a
    spirit of prophecy.

    Note: The number of the sibyls is variously stated by
    different authors; but the opinion of Varro, that there
    were ten, is generally adopted. They dwelt in various
    parts of Persia, Greece, and Italy.

    2. A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess. ``An
    old highland sibyl.'' --Sir W. Scott.

    1. Liz Greene, a Jungian psychotherapist, talks about the age of Aquarius She was poised, a beautiful sibyl, under her own painting of a church hewn from the rock in old Cappadocia.
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