Sibyl
['sɪbɪl] or ['sɪbl]
Definition
(noun.) (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet.
(noun.) a woman who tells fortunes.
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Definition
(n.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.
(n.) A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.
Checker: Mattie
Definition
n. in ancient mythology one of certain women possessing powers of divination and prophecy: a prophetess an old sorceress.—adjs. Sibyl′lic Sib′ylline pertaining to uttered or written by sibyls: prophetical.—n. Sib′yllist a believer in the so-called sibylline prophecies.—Sibylline Oracles a series of pretended prophecies in Greek hexameters written by Alexandrian Jews and Christians and supposed to date from the 2d century B.C. down to the 3d century A.D. or according to Ewald even the 6th.
Checker: Rupert
Examples
- At length we arrived at a large, desert, dark cavern, which the Lazzeroni assured us was the Sibyl's Cave. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Doubtless the leaves of the Cumaean Sibyl have suffered distortion and diminution of interest and excellence in my hands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her sole book in such hours was the dim chronicle of memory or the sibyl page of anticipation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- At length my friend, who had taken up some of the leaves strewed about, exclaimed, This is the Sibyl's cave; these are Sibylline leaves. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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