sibylline
adjEtymology
From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.
- borrowed from sibyllinus
Definitions
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl…
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
- Another early form of rhapsodomancy is represented by the sibylline books.
Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to…
Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.
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