Usually means: Mysterious, prophetic, oracular; like Sibyls.
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  1. sibylline: Merriam-Webster
  2. sibylline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sibylline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sibylline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sibylline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sibylline, sibylline: Wordnik
  7. sibylline: Wiktionary
  8. sibylline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sibylline: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sibylline: Dictionary.com
  11. Sibylline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sibylline: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sibylline: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. sibylline: Rhymezone
  15. Sibylline: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. sibylline: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. sibylline: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sibylline: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. sibylline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sibylline: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sibylline: Legal dictionary

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  1. sibylline: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See sibyl as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sibylline)

adjective:  Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
adjective:  (by extension) Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
adjective:  (by extension) Occult, mysterious.
adjective:  Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
noun:  One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.

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