Associations to the word «Sibylline»

Wiktionary

SIBYLLINE, adjective. Of or pertaining to a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
SIBYLLINE, adjective. (by extension) Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
SIBYLLINE, adjective. Mysterious

Dictionary definition

SIBYLLINE, adjective. 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".
SIBYLLINE, adjective. Having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats