Sibylline - Definition

sibylline

adj 1: 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" [syn: divinatory,
mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical]
2: having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols
engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline
in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn:
cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic,
cryptical, sibylline]

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