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Definition of Sibyls
1. sibyl [n] - See also: sibyl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sibyls
Literary usage of Sibyls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The sibyls most highly venerated in Rome were those of Cumae and ... In pagan
times the oracles and predictions ascribed to the sibyls were carefully ..."
2. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"THE sibyls are heathen prophetesses, who figure in the scheme of Christian ...
The Latin Church acted in a similar way by the adoption of the sibyls as ..."
3. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"THE sibyls arc heathen prophetesses, who figure in the scheme of Christian ...
The Latin Church acted in a similar way by the adoption of the sibyls as ..."
4. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1881)
"THE sibyls are heathen prophetesses, who figure in the scheme of Christian ...
The Latin Church acted in a similar way by the adoption of the sibyls as ..."
5. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"sibyls, Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome ; frescos on ceiling. ...
Painted by order of Agostino Chigi in 1514 ; entirely by sibyls, Raphael, ..."
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