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Definition of Oracular

Oracular
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. 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, n.

Meaning of Oracular from wikipedia

- extended use, oracle may also refer to the site of the oracle, and to the oracular utterances themselves, called khrēsmoí (χρησμοί) in Gr****. Oracles were...
- Oracular Spectacular is the debut studio album by the American band MGMT, released on October 2, 2007, by RED Ink and physically on January 22, 2008, by...
- Ink in 2006 and released their debut album Oracular Spectacular the next year. After the release of Oracular Spectacular, Richardson, Berman and Matthew...
- Oracular literature, also called orphic or prophetic literature, positions the poet as a medium between humanity and another world, sometimes defined as...
- over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. There are more than 500 supposed oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle...
- of the Oracular utterance was confirmed by the consequences of the application of the oracle to the lives of those people who sought Oracular guidance...
- from the flight of birds in classical Antiquity. The dove appears as an oracular animal in the story of Noah, and also in Thisbe in Boeotia there was a...
- indie band MGMT, released as the lead single from their debut studio album Oracular Spectacular (2007) on March 3, 2008. An earlier version had been released...
- be revered in ancient Israelite culture, and was closely connected with oracular practices and priestly ritual. In the Books of Samuel and Books of Chronicles...
- his (and MGMT cofounder Benjamin Goldw****er's) songs, "Kids" (from the Oracular Spectacular album), received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best...