sibylline

adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the

high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic

powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and

infallible answers to questions" [syn: {divinatory}, {mantic},

{sibyllic}, {vatic}, {vatical}]

2: having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols

engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly

sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther

[syn: {cabalistic}, {cryptic}, {cryptical}]