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.

O*rac"u*lous (?), a. Oracular; of the nature of an oracle. [R.]

"Equivocations, or oraculous speeches." Bacon. "The oraculous seer."

Pope. -- O*rac"u*lous*ly, adv. -- O*rac"u*lous*ness, n.

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