1 definition found 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. [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. [1913 Webster]
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