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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  2.  Resembling  an  oracle  in  some  way  as  in  solemnity,  wisdom, 
  authority,  obscurity,  ambiguity,  dogmatism. 
 
  They  have  something  venerable  and  oracular  in  that 
  unadorned  gravity  and  shortness  in  the  expression. 
  --Pope. 
  --  {O*rac"u*lar*ly},  adv  --  {O*rac"u*lar*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [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}] 
  3:  resembling  an  oracle  in  obscurity  of  thought;  "the  oracular 
  sayings  of  Victorian  poets";  "so  obscure  that  priests 
  might  have  to  clarify  it";  "an  enigmatic  smile"  [syn:  {enigmatic}]




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