Synonyms for sibylline
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sib-uh-leen, -lahyn, -lin |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪb əˌlin, -ˌlaɪn, -lɪn |
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Définition of sibylline
Origin :- 1570s, from Latin sibyllinus, from sibylla (see sibyl).
- adj prophetic
- In the Sibylline Leaves, 1829, the last five lines were replaced.
- Extract from : « The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- It is a Sibylline answer which nowise prejudices what he may do in future.
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
- And was it founded in obedience to some Sibylline direction?
- Extract from : « The Religious Experience of the Roman People » by W. Warde Fowler
- The Sibylline oracle forbade restoring the king "with a multitude."
- Extract from : « The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 » by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Sibylline Books; and the six books of the Republic of Cicero.
- Extract from : « Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber » by James Aitken Wylie
- Such were the authors of apocalypses and sibylline writings.
- Extract from : « English Conferences of Ernest Renan » by Ernest Renan
- In all the sibylline books is there anything stronger than the words 'I will'?
- Extract from : « The Death of the Gods » by Dmitri Mrejkowski
- He has also been deemed the forger of the Sibylline oracles.
- Extract from : « Frauds and Follies of the Fathers » by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
- The thoughts of these men are like the Sibylline leaves, profound but lost.
- Extract from : « Soliloquies in England » by George Santayana
- The very comparison with her tends to divest the others of the Sibylline character.
- Extract from : « Walks in Rome » by Augustus J.C. Hare
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