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.
ORACULOUS
O*rac"u*lous, a.
Defn: Oracular; of the nature of an oracle. [R.] "Equivocations, or
oraculous speeches." Bacon. "The oraculous seer." Pope.
— O*rac"u*lous*ly, adv.
— O*rac"u*lous*ness, n.
ORAGIOUS
O*ra"gious, a. Etym: [F. orageux.]
Defn: Stormy. [R.]
ORAISON
Or"ai*son, n.
Defn: See Orison. [Obs.] Shak.
ORAL
O"ral, a. Etym: [L. os, oris, the mouth, akin to Skr. as. Cf. Adore,
Orison, Usher.]
1. Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.