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Meanings of sibylline in English
Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
Related terms
Having a secret or hidden meaning.
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Examples for "cryptic"
Examples for "cryptic"
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Sielto's cryptic words didn't rise quite to the level of a warning.
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As cryptic as when Small Talk asked Jelena the very same question.
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And he said something kind of cryptic today, now you mention it.
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It's the first evidence that cryptic female choice contributes to reproductive success.
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He stated it as if that cryptic information was a simple fact.
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This, as you know, is a cabalistic speciality accredited in all countries.
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M. Hardy, like a true magician, has pronounced three cabalistic words: ASSOCIATION-COMMUNITY-FRATERNITY.
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The words of the letter were cabalistic; these, beneath underlined address:
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These cabalistic words were repeated twice in the brief letter to the estates.
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There was weirdness in its colour, almost cabalistic- acallout of the occult.
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The answer is a simple formula containing two Qabalistic and two astrological factors.
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Now imagine four Trees of Life, one for each of the four Qabalistic worlds.
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This symbol is rich in magical and Qabalistic symbolism.
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We already know earth is in some ways a real second-class citizen in the Qabalistic universe.
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In chapter 9, we learned the basics concerning the ten sephiroth, YHVH, and the four Qabalistic Worlds.
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The organic image expresses the unity of this Kabbalistic symbol.
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This can be understood better by forming a Kabbalistic table of the same word in English.
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But I understand that you also believe that human science will always be inferior to Kabbalistic and Scriptural studies.
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When he described this holiness, Gordon used Kabbalistic terms that had once been applied to the mysterious realm of God:
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'Tell me what it means to be Kabbalistic, Mendel.
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His comment on this piece of news is strong but cryptical.
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Mathewson to the cryptical stone edifice with high narrow windows, another third to follow Capt.
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He did not explain that somewhat cryptical remark, and presently he left her and went to his room.
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Ahead loomed green and cryptical hills, and when the conductor came around I learned that I was at last in Vermont.
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The distribution of cryptical cave-mouths on the black snow-denuded summits seemed roughly even as far as the range could be traced.
Usage of sibylline in English
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They knew well that sibylline look on the face of Miranda Brown.
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All right, when you get on these sibylline airs, I say no more.
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At length the temple was destroyed by fire, and the original sibylline books perished.
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The governess, who was clever, studied Cæsar's hand and expressed herself in sibylline terms:
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He wrote to congratulate him, and Perrotin thanked him in a few prudent and sibylline words:
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It is as old as the sibylline books.
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If he could have met Debora again, he would have forgiven her sibylline deceptions, her father's chicanery.
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Her sibylline science extended no further.
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A few days later she again met her old gipsy crone Hagar Burton, who repeated her sibylline declaration.
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For some time the empress walked up and down her room, undecided whether to turn the sibylline leaves or not.
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By a sibylline stichomancy.
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The sibylline oracles were held in so great veneration among the ancients, that nothing of importance was undertaken without consulting them.
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You need not any way doubt but that feminine old age is always fructifying in qualities sublime- Iwouldhave said sibylline.
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But from them must come the sibylline response, for the true artist has no home upon earth save the heart of humanity!
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László Nemes reunites with Son of Saul co-writer Clara Royer for this sumptuous, sibylline account of the last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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The accounts are all written on the sibylline leaves; they are in all languages, ancient and modern; and those concerning this story are in English.
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