“Sibyllist”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Sibyllist

释义

Sibyllist|ˈsɪbɪlɪst|
Also 7 Sybillist.
[ad. late Gr. σιβυλλιστής: see Sibyl and -ist.]
1. One who believes in the Sibylline prophecies; especially applied to the early Christians who accepted the Sibylline writings as genuine.
1605J. Dove Confut. Atheism 53 The heathens called the Christians Sybillistes, because Christian religion was most of all proued out of the Sybils Oracles.1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 284 Upon Celsus mentioning a Sect of Christians called Sibyllists, Origen tells us, that these..were called so in way of disgrace, by other Christians.1846S. Sharpe Hist. Egypt fr. Earliest Times xiii. 429 Celsus charges the Christians with being sibyllists.
2. A writer or compiler of Sibylline oracles.
1899Contemp. Rev. Dec. 811 A favourite device on the part of a Sibyllist is to review all the kings of the period just before his own time.

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