Sibylline
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Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed bysibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (a) (Rom.Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fateof the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by Tarquin the Proudfrom a Sibyl. (b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writingspurporting to have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They datefrom 100 b. c. to a. d. 500.
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Relating to or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic and mysterious.
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