Sibyllicadj.
/sɪˈbɪlɪk/ = Sibylline adj.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective]
curiousc1384
mystical1516
cabbalisticala1593
occult1593
hermetical1605
cabbalistic1625
hermetica1637
adeptical1662
trismegistic1678
trismegistical1678
trismegistian1694
Sibylline1817
Sibyllica1849
occultist1893
widdershins1926
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination through oracles > [adjective] > relating to an oracle > relating to the Sibyls > oracular, occult
Sibylline1817
Sibyllica1849
a1849 E. A. Poe Ulalume in Poet. Wks. (1859) 71 Its Sybilic splendor is beaming with Hope and Beauty.
1870 Nation XI. 390 Sibyllic enough to be extremely puzzling to the average mind.
1894 Table Poems 19 With sibyllic omen Seeming thus to say.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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adj.a1849- semantic bleaching
- semantic borrowing
- semantic consequence
- semantic differential
- semantic field
- semantic loan
- semantic memory
- semantic net
- semantic network
- semantic paradox
- semantic poetry
- semantic primitive
- semantic web
- semantical
- semantically
- semantician
- semanticism
- semanticist
- semanticists
- semanticity
- semanticize
- semanticized
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- semantico
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