7.14.2011

Word of the Day: Sibylline

sib·yl·line

[sib-uh-leen, -lahyn, -lin]
–adjective
1.
of, resembling, or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic; oracular.
2.
mysterious; cryptic.

n
1.(in ancient Greece and Rome) any of a number of women believed to be oracles or prophetesses, one of the most famou sbeing the sibyl of Cumae, who guided Aeneas through the underworld.
2.a witch, fortune-teller, or sorceress