(ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
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Sibyl \Sib"yl\, n. [L. sibylla, Gr. ????.] 1. (Class. Antiq.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.
Note: 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.'' --Sir W. Scott.
Liz Greene, a Jungian psychotherapist, talks about the age of Aquarius She was poised, a beautiful sibyl, under her own painting of a church hewn from the rock in old Cappadocia.