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oracular
(encz) | oracular,záhadný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Oracular
(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.
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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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oracular
(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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Oracular
(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.
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2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
[1913 Webster]
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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Oracularly
(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.
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2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
[1913 Webster]
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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Oracularness
(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.
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2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom,
authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
[1913 Webster]
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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