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 sibylline ['sibili:n]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 女巫的, 预言性的



    sibylline
    [ adj ]
    1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy

    2. <adj.all>
      the high priest's divinatory pronouncement
      mantic powers
      a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
    3. having a secret or hidden meaning

    4. <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.

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