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Sibyllic

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Adjective

1. divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical

resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy

Example Sentences:
'the high priest's divinatory pronouncement'
'mantic powers'
'a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sibyllic

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noun
1. 
(in ancient Greece and Rome) any of a number of women believed to be oracles or prophetesses, one of the most famous being the sibyl of Cumae, who guided Aeneas through the underworld
2. 
a witch, fortune-teller, or sorceress

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Sibyllic

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noun
a feminine name: var. Sybil
noun
1. 
any of certain women consulted as prophetesses by the ancient Greeks and Romans
2. 
a fortuneteller

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sibyllic

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adj.
1. Coming from, characteristic of, or relating to a sibyl.
2. Prophetic; oracular.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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