Definitions for sibylline

sibylline sib·yl·line

Spelling: [sib-uh-leen, -lahyn, -lin]
IPA: /ˈsɪb əˌlin, -ˌlaɪn, -lɪn/

Sibylline is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 219 anagrams from letters in sibylline (beiillnsy).

Definitions for sibylline

adjective

  1. of, resembling, or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic; oracular.
  2. mysterious; cryptic.

Origin of sibylline

First recorded in 1570-80, sibylline is from the Latin word Sibyllīnus pertaining to a sibyl. See sibyl, -ine1

Examples for sibylline

In all the sibylline books is there anything stronger than the words 'I will'?

The very comparison with her tends to divest the others of the sibylline character.

The thoughts of these men are like the sibylline leaves, profound but lost.

In the sibylline Leaves, 1829, the last five lines were replaced.

He has also been deemed the forger of the sibylline oracles.

The sibylline oracle forbade restoring the king "with a multitude."

sibylline Books; and the six books of the Republic of Cicero.

It is a sibylline answer which nowise prejudices what he may do in future.

And was it founded in obedience to some sibylline direction?

Such were the authors of apocalypses and sibylline writings.

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