sibylline

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.

   “Cleopatra immediately comes down to the chair of state; seizes Ptolemy and drags him out of his seat; then takes his place in the chair. Ftatateeta seats herself on the step of the loggia, and sits there, watching the scene with sybilline intensity.”

2. sıfat Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
3. sıfat Occult, mysterious.
4. sıfat Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
5. isim One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.