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sibylline

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sibylline in WordNet English dictionary

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