1) Ancient Greek title 2) Ancient prophetess 3) Ancient Roman female oracle 4) Ancient seeress 5) Delphic prophetess 6) English girl name 7) English given name 8) Female fortune teller 9) Female oracle 10) Female prophet 11) Female seer 12) Fortune teller 13) Fortuneteller 14) Forward-looking woman
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1) Clairvoyant 2) Oracle 3) Seer 4) Seeress
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- a woman who tells fortunes
- (ancient Greece and Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
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The Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece. The earliest Sibyls, ‘who admittedly are known only through legend,’ prophesied at certain holy sites, under the divine influence of a deity, originally—at Delphi and Pessinos—one of the chthonic deities. Later in antiquity, a number of sibyls are attest...
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[oracle] This category identifies units of electrical inductance. ...
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• (n.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy. • (n.) A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.
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prophetess in Greek legend and literature. Tradition represented her as a woman of prodigious old age uttering predictions in ecstatic frenzy, but ... [1 related articles]
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queen of the crusader state of Jerusalem (1186–90).[2 related articles]
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In Roman mythology, one of many priestesses who prophesied under a deity's direct inspiration; most notably the Sibyl of Cumae, near Naples. A priestess of Apollo, she guided
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1. A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy. ... The number of the sibyls is variously stated by different authors; but the opinion of Varro, that there were ten, is generally adopted. They dwelt in various parts of Persia, Greece, and Italy. ... 2. A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess. 'An old highland sibyl.' ... Ori...
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Sib'yl noun [ Latin
sibylla , Greek .............]
1. (Class. Antiq.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy. » The number of the sibyls is variously stated by different authors; but the opinion of Varro, that there were ten, is generally adopted. They dwelt ...
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HMS Sibyl was a British Sealion Class submarine of 715 tons displacement launched during the early 1940's. She was armed with one 3-inch gun; one 20 mm anti-aircraft gun; three machine-guns; six 21-inch torpedo tubes in the bow and one external 21 inch torpedo tube. She had a top speed of 14.5 knots surfaced and 10 knots submerged, could crash dive...
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n] - a woman who tells fortunes 2. [n] - (ancient Greece and Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
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[Ivanhoe] prophetess; fortune-teller
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priestess of Apollo who predicted the Trojan War and the fall of Troy at the hand of a Spartan woman (Helen); the Sibyl at Cumae guided Aeneas through the underworld (Aeneid).
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noun (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
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In Roman mythology, one of many priestesses who prophesied under a deity's direct inspiration; most notably the Sibyl of Cumae, near Naples. A priestess of Apollo, she guided Aeneas to Hades, and offered to sell nine collections of prophecies, the Sibylline Books, to the legendary king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus. The price was too high, b...
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