sibylline Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
    sibyllic; vatical; vatic; mantic; divinatory.
    • the high priest's divinatory pronouncement
    • mantic powers
    • a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
  2. adjective satellite having a secret or hidden meaning
    cryptical; cryptic; cabalistic; qabalistic; kabbalistic.
    • cabalistic symbols engraved in stone
    • cryptic writings
    • thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther

WordNet

Sib"yl*line adjective
Etymology
L. sibyllinus.
Definitions
  1. Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.

Webster 1913