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sibyllic

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sib·yl·line  (sb-ln, -ln) also si·byl·ic or si·byl·lic (s-blk)
adj.
1. Coming from, characteristic of, or relating to a sibyl.
2. Prophetic; oracular.
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Adj.1.sibyllic - resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecysibyllic - 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"
divinatory, mantic, sibylline, vatic, vatical
prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"
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s Aunt, who had eaten her pie with great solemnity, and who had been elaborating some grievous scheme of injury in her mind since her first assumption of that public position on the Marshal's steps, took the present opportunity of addressing the following Sibyllic apostrophe to the relict of her late nephew.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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