Word Meanings - SIBYLLINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by

Additional info about word: SIBYLLINE

Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (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. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SIBYLLINE)

• Prophetic
• Predictive
• ominous
• portentous
• premonitory
• fatidical
• oracular
• sibylline

Related words: (words related to SIBYLLINE)

• PROPHETIC; PROPHETICAL
  Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of the event. Dryden.
• OMINOUS
  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
• ORACULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue. 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular
• SIBYLLINE
  Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by
• PROPHETICALITY
  Propheticalness.
• PREMONITORY
  Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.
• PROPHETICALNESS
  The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.
• FATIDICAL
  Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. Howell. -- Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.
• PORTENTOUS
  1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay. 2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious;
• PROPHETICALLY
  In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.
• PREDICTIVE
  Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• BINOMINOUS
  Binominal.
• ABDOMINOUS
  Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.