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sibylline

/'sɪbə,lin/

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adjective
having a secret or hidden meaning
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"thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"

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cabalistic cryptic cryptical kabbalistic qabalistic esoteric
adjective
resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
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"a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"

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divinatory mantic sibyllic vatic vatical prophetic prophetical

Examples of sibylline

"thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"
"a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"