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Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
  2. a. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
  3. adj. of or relating to an oracle
  4. adj. obscurely prophetic
  5. adj. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought
  6. 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.
  7. j:100 a. of or relating to an oracle