Oracularness

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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.
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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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