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Grammar : Adj
Spell : aw-rak-yuh-ler, oh-rak-
Phonetic Transcription : ɔˈræk yə lər, oʊˈræk-

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Définition of oracular

Origin :
  • 1670s, from Latin oraculum (see oracle) + -ar.
  • adj prophetic
Example sentences :
  • It assumes to be prophetical, and its utterances are oracular.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • "Anybody can do it, when once they know how," so ran this oracular document.
  • Extract from : « A Tangled Tale » by Lewis Carroll
  • And Marion delivered this speech with a most oracular and pretentious tone.
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • "You are neither of you right, as usual," said little Potts, in his oracular way.
  • Extract from : « Potts's Painless Cure » by Edward Bellamy
  • Margaret was oracular and mysterious, and looked like a thundercloud.
  • Extract from : « Daisy » by Elizabeth Wetherell
  • His method is gnomic, laconic, oracular; never persuasive or plausible.
  • Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys
  • "We're all like we're made," sounded the oracular accents of Mr. Peebles.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1919 » by Various
  • "I would na be surprised," he observed with oracular amiability.
  • Extract from : « That Lass O' Lowrie's » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • I suppose I remembered it for its oracular sound, and because I was not intended to listen.
  • Extract from : « The Heir of Redclyffe » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Yet her journey had the sanction of Eugenia's concurrence; and Eugenia seemed to her oracular.
  • Extract from : « Camilla » by Fanny Burney
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