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sibyl - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sibyl'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the (w).
  • * : Act III, Scene IV:
  • A sibyl , that had number'd in the world
    The sun to course two hundred compasses,
    In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;
  • * 1922' T. S. Eliot, ''The Wasteland'': Epigraph (translated from ' 61 (Petronius)' The Satyricon: Chapter 8, Lines 80 -86)
  • I used to read these tales in Homer when I was a lad. Then the Sibyl'! I saw her at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys cried to her, ‘' Sibyl , what would you?' she'd answer, ‘I would die,'-- both of ‘em speaking Greek."
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