adjective
- Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
- usage: "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
- synonyms: divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical
- Having a secret or hidden meaning."cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements- John Gunther
- synonyms: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical
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