Definition of "oracular" []

• Of, relating to, or being an oracle. (adjective)
• Resembling or characteristic of an oracle: (adjective)
• Solemnly prophetic. (adjective)
• Enigmatic; obscure. (adjective)

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• "Moses, and we find that here two stations are omitted (Nu 33: 1-56). according to the commandment of the Lord, &c. -- not given in oracular response, nor a vision of the night, but indicated by the movement of the cloudy pillar."
• "In a style that might best be described as oracular doom-collage, Mr. Trow cautioned that if we let it, TV would rob us of every human dignity."
• "No one, perhaps, who has ever read _Little Dorrit_, whatever else in the novel may slip the memory, fails to recall the oracular utterance of"