sibylline
 (a.)女巫的,預言性的
 Sib·yl·line a.  Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.
 Sibylline books. (a) Rom. Antiq. Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl. (b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writings purporting to have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date from 100 b. c. to a. d. 500.
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 sibylline
      adj 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" [syn: divinatory, mantic,
              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]