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Webster 1913 Edition


Oracular

O-rac′u-lar

,
Adj.
[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
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Oracular

ORAC'ULAR

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