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# sibylline

adjective (no comparative form)

«sibylline» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Sibylline means of or like a sibyl; mysterious and hard to understand, as if giving a hidden prophecy. (rare) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sibylline/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, sibylline books or oracles are old collections of prophecies that were kept and consulted for guidance.

### Examples

- These oracles were collected to replace the Sibylline books. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sibylline/#x1)
- The Sibylline oracles were kept in gilt chests. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sibylline/#x2)
- Her answer was sibylline and puzzling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sibylline/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sibylline» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sibylline/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sibylline» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sibylline.html) on Mova free.