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Another word for oracular

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Adjective

  1. Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means

    See also:

    foresight

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Another word for oracular

Modifier

  1. Vague or obscure

    See also:

    obscure

    vague

  2. Prophetic

    See also:

    mysterious

    Antonyms:

  3. Authoritative

    See also:

    authoritative

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Sentence Examples

  • They dealt with such subjects as the origin of the gods, the creation of the world, the ritual of purification and initiation, and oracular responses.

  • His oracular reserve, personal honesty and consistency of aim had gained him the suffrages of all who hoped to save France from the harpies of the Directory and the violent rhetoricians of the now reconstituted Jacobin Club.

  • xxii-xxv.; it consists of a narrative which serves as a framework for seven oracular peoms, the first four being of some length and the last three very brief.

  • Oracular possession of the kind above described is also common among savages and people of lower culture; and Dr Tylor, in his Primitive Culture, ii.

  • Very little was done in 1913-4; the " temple of Apollo Clarius " was found to be an exedra and a propylaea, and an oracular grotto of the god was discovered in the hills.

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