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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'Oracular' Resulted in 2 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 2 Definitions Oracular adjective oracular of, relating to, being, or resembling an oracle prophetic obscure or enigmatic; Delphic       oracular adjective  relating to an oracle 1810, Sir Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake In some of the Hebrides they attributed the same power to a large black stone by the sea-shore, which they approached with certain solemnities, and considered the first fancy which came into their own minds, after they did so, to be the undoubted dictate of the tutelar deity of the stone, and, as such, to be, if possible, punctually complied with. prophetic, foretelling the future 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon :My Lord Chatham, whose wisdom his party in those days used to call superhuman, raised his voice in the House of Peers against the American contest; ambiguous, hard to interpret 1754, Horace Walpole, letter to John Chute :Nothing offended me but that lisping Miss Haughton, whose every speech is inarticulately . 1895, Andrew Dickson White, History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom :This utterance was admirably , being susceptible of cogent quotation by both sides...        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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