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Source: 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.

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-- {O*racu*lar*ly}, adv. --
{O*racu*lar*ness}, n.

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