Sibylline definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SIB'YLLINE, a. Pertaining to ... high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical] 2: having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline] Merriam Webster's adjective see sibyl Oxford Reference Dictionary adj ... from a sibyl. 2 oracular; prophetic. Phrases and idioms: the Sibylline books a collection of oracles belonging to the ancient ...
Sibylline books definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sibylline Sib"yl*line, a. [L. sibyllinus.] Pertaining to the sibyls ... written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (a) (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in ... early Christian writings purporting to have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date from 100 b. c. to a. d ...
... wrote certain prophecies on leaves in verse, which are called Sibylline verses, or Sibylline oracles. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a woman ... 2. a. prophetess b. fortune-teller • sibylic or sibyllic adjective • sibylline adjective Britannica Concise Prophetess of Greek legend. She was a ... in an ecstatic frenzy. A famous collection of prophecies, the Sibylline Books, was traditionally kept in the temple of Jupiter, to ...
... Summary; (2) Structure; (3) Language; (4) Date and Authorship V. SIBYLLINE ORACLES VI. CONCLUSION LITERATURE A series of pseudepigraphic works, mainly ... same movement was the composition, mainly in Alexandria, of the Sibylline books. The literary device of "vision" was one used in ... in Hebrew or Aramaic by Jews resident in Palestine, the Sibylline books, composed to a great extent by Jews of Alexandria ... Typical Apocalypses; (2) Legendary Testaments; (3) Psalmic; (4) Testaments; (5) Sibylline Oracles. I. Apocalypses Proper. As above indicated, all these take ...
... high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical] 2: based primarily on surmise rather than ... presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative, prophetic, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious, sibyllic, sibylline, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise
... II, ii.) The remains of this litereature consist of the Sibylline Oracles (oldest parts, Book III, from 2nd century BC), the ... appear, but not always in the same light. In the Sibylline Oracles (3), Psalms of Solomon (17; 18), Apocrypha Baruch (39 ... includes in the scope of its blessing the converted Gentiles (Sibylline Oracles 3:698-726; Enoch 90:30,37; compare 48 ...
... high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Vatical Vat"ic ...
... high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Latin vates ...
... hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline]
... themselves in every direction, and, in the words of the Sibylline Oracles (circa 160 BC), "crowded with their numbers every ocean ... to world-mastery. Many books on Judaism (e.g. the Sibylline Oracles) were written anonymously by Jews in order to influence ...
... hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline] Merriam Webster's adjective see kabbalah
... high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Greek mantikos ...
... when parts of the Book of Enoch and of the Sibylline Oracles were written; and a main characteristic of an apocalypse ... earliest parts of the Book of Enoch and of the Sibylline Oracles were written about the middle of the 2nd century ...