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Meanings of oracular in English

Resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought.

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Obscurely prophetic.

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Examples for "enigmatic"
Examples for "enigmatic"
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Adrian: The past three years have spun Everest into an enigmatic state.
Climbing Magazine
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Today the house cuts an enigmatic shape against the harsh Atlantic coast.
The Irish Times
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It might be a doubtful point; it is certainly an enigmatic object.
Vampire forensics: uncovering the origins of an enduring legend
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The underlying causes driving the diversity of VDR binding choices remain enigmatic.
Pubmed
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It simply advanced, enigmatic and intimidating, testing her resolve to stand fast.
Jarka Ruus

Prophecy.

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Oracular.

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Usage of oracular in English
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Once more the box is shaken; once more the oracular bamboo protrudes.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
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Today, oracular seidh is a limited but accepted part of Heathen tradition.
Drawing Down the Moon
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At present there is something oracular in the delivery of my opinion.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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Try next door, but that's just a suggestion, not formal oracular advice.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
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Not that Aeschylus, like Euripides, deals in didactic sentences and oracular aphorisms.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
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There was something about its very colourlessness which made it sound oracular.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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After this oracular pronouncement all three of us took leave of Mosaïde.
The Queen Pedauque
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Hale does frown so when he makes one of his oracular utterances.
Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
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Her oracular moods always interested me, consorting so oddly with her youth.
The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
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At the risk of sounding oracular, we don't know which one.
The Guardian
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Thus began the vast theological structure of oracular interpretation applied to the Bible.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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An oracular shake of the head conveyed more than the words.
The Shrieking Pit
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Paxson's group, Seidhjallr, first presented the oracular ritual publicly in 1990.
Drawing Down the Moon
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Such was the oracular deliverance from Cheyne Row, and Froude obeyed the oracle.
The Life of Froude
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To this class of the oracular I certainly did not belong.
Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter...
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The words of Hamet el Zegri were hailed as oracular by his adherents.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
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