Sibylline

Definition of Sibylline

Sib´yl`line
a.1.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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divinatory, mantic, prophetic, prophetical, sibyllic, vatic, vatical
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