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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Oracular \O*rac"u*lar\, a. [L. oracularius. See {Oracle}.]
1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles;
forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
[1913 Webster]
2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
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They have something venerable and oracular in that
unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster] -- {O*rac"u*lar*ly}, adv. --
{O*rac"u*lar*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oracular
adj 1: of or relating to an oracle; "able by oracular means to
expose a witch"
2: obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular
message" [syn: {Delphic}, {oracular}]
3: resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular
sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might
have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile" [syn: {enigmatic},
{oracular}]
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