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Definition of sibyl in English: sibylnounˈsɪbɪlˈsɪb(ə)l 1A woman in ancient times who was thought to utter the prophecies of a god. Example sentencesExamples - In 1512-13 Raphael painted above the entrance arch of the Chigi chapel in S. Maria del Popolo a fresco with sibyls and prophets.
- I have a chapter on Shakespeare and Macbeth; there's the chapter about Ancient Greece, a chapter about Delphi and sibyls in Grecian-Roman times.
- These centrally located narratives are surrounded by alternating images of prophets and sibyls on marble thrones, by other Old Testament subjects and by the ancestors of Christ.
- She is a story teller and through telling stories discovers new meanings, like the ancient forerunners of her profession - the pythonesses, abbesses and sibyls who ‘revealed mysteries’.
- They inquire of ancient apocalyptic books and oracles, of sibyls and divines, who remembered the future and predicted it in the past: an exercise in retroactive foresight.
- Droitture explains that her first stones are the sibyls and female prophets; as exemplars of prudent wisdom and fore - sight, they demonstrate that God has entrusted his secrets to faithful and devoted women.
- The outlaws, aided by an old sibyl, defeat the castle's forces, and it burns to the ground.
- Carstens's Necessity is generally reminiscent of Michelangelo's sibyls, more specifically perhaps of the elderly Persica.
- Looking on are the prophets and sibyls, the mysterious seers of man's tragedy.
- The three sibyls of the title reminded James that they had once prophesied endless dominion to Banquo's descendants, and saluted him in turn with the words ‘Hail, thou who rulest Scotland!’
- The opposite of an oracle in many ways is a sibyl.
- As they were thought to have made prophecies in pagan times, the classic sibyls are shown just above and below the central panels.
- 1.1literary A woman able to foretell the future.
Origin From Old French Sibile or medieval Latin Sibilla, via Latin from Greek Sibulla. Definition of sibyl in US English: sibylnounˈsɪb(ə)lˈsib(ə)l 1A woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god. Example sentencesExamples - She is a story teller and through telling stories discovers new meanings, like the ancient forerunners of her profession - the pythonesses, abbesses and sibyls who ‘revealed mysteries’.
- Carstens's Necessity is generally reminiscent of Michelangelo's sibyls, more specifically perhaps of the elderly Persica.
- As they were thought to have made prophecies in pagan times, the classic sibyls are shown just above and below the central panels.
- In 1512-13 Raphael painted above the entrance arch of the Chigi chapel in S. Maria del Popolo a fresco with sibyls and prophets.
- The outlaws, aided by an old sibyl, defeat the castle's forces, and it burns to the ground.
- They inquire of ancient apocalyptic books and oracles, of sibyls and divines, who remembered the future and predicted it in the past: an exercise in retroactive foresight.
- The three sibyls of the title reminded James that they had once prophesied endless dominion to Banquo's descendants, and saluted him in turn with the words ‘Hail, thou who rulest Scotland!’
- The opposite of an oracle in many ways is a sibyl.
- I have a chapter on Shakespeare and Macbeth; there's the chapter about Ancient Greece, a chapter about Delphi and sibyls in Grecian-Roman times.
- Droitture explains that her first stones are the sibyls and female prophets; as exemplars of prudent wisdom and fore - sight, they demonstrate that God has entrusted his secrets to faithful and devoted women.
- Looking on are the prophets and sibyls, the mysterious seers of man's tragedy.
- These centrally located narratives are surrounded by alternating images of prophets and sibyls on marble thrones, by other Old Testament subjects and by the ancestors of Christ.
- 1.1literary A woman able to foretell the future.
Origin From Old French Sibile or medieval Latin Sibilla, via Latin from Greek Sibulla. |