oracular
IPA: ˈɔrʌkjʌɫɝ
adjective
- Of or relating to an oracle.
- Prophetic, foretelling the future.
- Wise, authoritative.
- Ambiguous, hard to interpret.
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Examples of "oracular" in Sentences
- I tried to interpret these oracular predictions.
- German Idealism is oracular, according to Popper.
- By that time, Hen Wen's oracular powers were gone.
- Oracular shrines and sanctuaries were still popular.
- Dhu'l Halasa is an oracular god of pre Islamic South Arabia.
- Her oracular responses the Senate transferred into the capitol.
- Endovelicus was a god of healing and also had oracular functions.
- In Chinese traditional religion, the tortoise is an oracular animal.
- Oracular readings were the product of complex political give and take.
- At any rate, the oracular value bit is emphasized in two other models.
- We have been accustomed to call the oracular sayings of men like Thales,
- Random generation is a cornerstone of old school gaming, as is the acceptance of the "oracular" power of dice.
- No one, perhaps, who has ever read _Little Dorrit_, whatever else in the novel may slip the memory, fails to recall the oracular utterance of
- In a style that might best be described as oracular doom-collage, Mr. Trow cautioned that if we let it, TV would rob us of every human dignity.
- In my reading of this essay, Paglia does not really want a poem to be a verbal object but instead some kind of oracular pronouncement, a pronouncement in which "art" really has little if any role.
- Now and then we had formal conversazioni, and at these I soon took a prominent part, though the inquiring spirit strongly predominated over the oracular, which is likely to monopolize such assemblies.
- Now and then we had formal _conversazioni_, and at these I soon took a prominent part, though the inquiring spirit strongly predominated over the oracular, which is likely to monopolize such assemblies.
- Moses, and we find that here two stations are omitted (Nu 33: 1-56). according to the commandment of the Lord, &c. -- not given in oracular response, nor a vision of the night, but indicated by the movement of the cloudy pillar.
- Like Edmundson, he continued to believe that the right kind of teaching (teaching that wasn't "oracular") could change lives, and when it came to his own writing, he turned his fictional double, Buddy Glass, into a writer who teaches college with great devotion.
- Because the authors knew that this would go down like a lead balloon with the fans, the importance of these 'notes' and 'outlines' had been inflated many times until they became some kind of oracular vision, Frank Herbert guiding their writing hands from beyond the grave.
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