sibylline (adj.)

  1. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; the high priests divinatory pronouncement; mantic powers; a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions

    [ Syn: divinatory , mantic , sibyllic , vatic , vatical ]

  2. having a secret or hidden meaning; cabalistic symbols engraved in stone; cryptic writings; thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements- John Gunther

    [ Syn: cabalistic , kabbalistic , qabalistic , cryptic , cryptical ]

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