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sibylline
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As an adjective, sibylline means of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books. As a noun, it means one of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.
Meanings of sibylline
7 meaningsadjective
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
Occult, mysterious.
Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
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”
Similar: divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vaticalHaving a secret or hidden meaning
“cabalistic symbols engraved in stone”
“cryptic writings”
“thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements”
Similar: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical
noun
One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).