sibylline
英 ['sɪbɪlaɪn]
美['sɪbɪlaɪn]
- adj. 女巫的；预言性的
英英释义
- 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"
- 2. having a secret or hidden meaning;
- "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"
- "cryptic writings"
- "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
中文词源
sibylline 神谕的，预言的
来自 sibyl,女预言家，-ine,形容词后缀。
英文词源
- sibylline (adj.)
- 1570s, from Latin sibyllinus, from sibylla (see sibyl).