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sibyl::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | vaticinator, prophesier, prophet, oracle, seer |
| Derivation | sibyllic |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fortuneteller, fortune teller |
| Derivation | sibyllic |
Examples of sibyl
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Sibyl Rhea was a nurse before opening an antiques business with her husband.
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Sibyl Morgan Author of poetry relating to african american experiences.
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Intoxicated by the vapors, the sibyl would fall into a trance, allowing Apollo to possess her spirit.
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Sibyl could have flayed me with as much condescension as she had the time for and I never would have risen to the bait.
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Sibyl Powell, who lives in Mechanicsville, requested a recipe for Toffee Bars, one she'd had in the'50s or'60s but lost.
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The result of critical examination in the British Museum Library, of the literature relating to the Yorkshire sibyl.
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The Christian author Lactantius had no hesitation in identifying the sibyl in question as the Tiburtine sibyl, nevertheless.
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Martin L. West writes that the sibyl at Delphi shows many traits of shamanistic practices, likely inherited or influenced from Central Asian practices.
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The sibyl, who was born near there, at Marpessus, and whose tomb was later marked by the temple of Apollo built upon the archaic site, appears on the coins of Gergis, ca 400-350 BCE.
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- A woman who tells fortunes
- (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
- The sibyls were women that the ancient Greeks believed were oracles. The earliest sibyls, according to legend, prophesied at holy sites. Their prophecies were influenced by divine inspiration from a deity; originally at Delphi and Pessinos, the deities were chthonic deities. In later antiquity, various writers attested to the existence of sibyls in Greece, Italy, the Levant, and Asia Minor.
- Oracle is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.
- The ageless Cumaean Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony located near Naples, Italy.
- (Sibyls (Raphael)) The Sybils, or Sybils receiving instruction from Angels, is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted in 1514, as part of a commission Raphael had received from the papal banker Agostino Chigi to decorate the interior of Santa Maria della Pace in Rome.
- A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl
- (sibyls (Gk. sibylla, "prophetess")) In antiquity, women who could prophesy. The many Sibylline prophecies were kept in Rome and consulted by the Senate. In Christian legend, Sibyls foretold the Birth, Passion and Resurrection of Christ, just as the male prophets of the Bible did. ...
- A prophetess; a sorceress (adj.- sibylline)
