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Meanings of sibylline in English
Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
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Having a secret or hidden meaning.
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Examples for "divinatory"
Examples for "divinatory"
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See chapter 20 for the general divinatory meanings of this card.
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This is a good blend to use to consecrate and charge your divinatory tools.
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She'd consulted it, the divinatory deck, the astrological signs, everything.
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It was an ancient artefact of the divinatory Dragons Deck.
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Geomantic Figures: There are sixteen geomantic figures which, in a divinatory operation, are randomly generated.
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Would the mantic sight have faded on its own soon enough?
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Wynn forgot nausea and vertigo and everything else that plagued her mantic sight.
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She felt it move like the black ribbons Wynn had seen with her mantic sight.
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London's workforce barely registered this mantic transformation.
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Of them, only a few can learn the proper mantic skills to amount to anything as an adept.
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When Obama gets her to recount family history, she is a vatic presence.
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The plotline about western powers scrabbling for resources in the Middle East seems horribly vatic.
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He smiled at her with his vatic calm.
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But his simple speech hid vatic power.
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It flashes from casual naturalism to gory horror, from game playing to terrible earnest, from the vatic to the casual.
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She stayed, however, in Paris, which she apostrophises with Sibyllic candour:-
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64. sibyllic: usually "sibylline," prophetic; from "sibyl."
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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