sibylline
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean…Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Значение
значений: 4(без степеней сравнения)Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
(шире, без степеней сравнения)Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
(шире, без степеней сравнения)Occult, mysterious.
(без степеней сравнения)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
- having a secret or hidden meaning
Происхождение
From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.
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Синонимы
синонимов: 11- resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy:divinatorymanticsibyllicvaticvatical
- having a secret or hidden meaning:cabalistickabbalisticqabalisticcrypticcryptical