Meaning of Sibyl | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
2. A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.
3. Alternative letter-case form of sibyl.
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“A Sybill that had numbred in the world The Sun to courſe, two hundred compaſſes, In her Prophetticke furie ſow'd the Worke:”

“"Are you very anxious," asked he, "to consult⟳ the sibyl?" "Nay," replied Francesea; "I want⟳ faith." "You will," replied he, "nevertheless be amused with Madame de I'Hôpital's tact; she knows enough of the history of the individuals around to give⟳ a shrewd guess⟳ at the favourite fantasy of each, and that it will be successful is the summing up of her prophecy. She tells each what he wishes, and so obtains an easy belief."”

“`Nay, wait⟳, Kallikrates,' said Ayesha, who, standing with the lamp raised above her head, flooding with its light⟳ her own⟳ rich beauty and the cold wonder⟳ of the death-clothed form⟳ upon the bier, resembled an inspired Sibyl rather than a woman, as she rolled out her majestic sentences with a grandeur and a freedom of utterance which I am, alas! quite unable to reproduce⟳.”

“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."”

“Be she as foul as Florentius' love⟳, / As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd / As Socrates' Xanthippe, or worse, / She moves me not.”

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