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English Dictionary: oracularly by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oracular \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.
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