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Oracle   /ˈɔrəkəl/   Listen
Oracle

noun
1.
An authoritative person who divines the future.  Synonyms: prophesier, prophet, seer, vaticinator.
2.
A prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible.
3.
A shrine where an oracular god is consulted.



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"Oracle" Quotes from Famous Books



... quarrel between Ulysses and Achilles, and the fierce words that they heaped on one another as they sat together at a banquet. But Agamemnon was glad when he heard his chieftains quarrelling with one another, for Apollo had foretold him this at Pytho when he crossed the stone floor to consult the oracle. Here was the beginning of the evil that by the will of Jove fell both ...
— The Odyssey • Homer
... laugh of derision. "No more of your homily, reverend oracle," said the sergeant; "I have an excellent recipe for short sermons here; utter another word and you shall have it!" The troopers laughed again, and the sergeant, as he spoke, held his pistol in the ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 - Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative • Alexander Leighton
... quite sure," said I,—"quite sure? 'Woe to him,' says the oracle, 'who goes to the pork-barrel before the moment of ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale
... Saturn, under the appellation of Ouranus, or Heaven; there the impious Titans warred with the sky; there Jupiter was born and nursed; there was the celebrated shrine of Ammon, dedicated to Theban Jove, which the Greeks reverenced more highly than the Delphic Oracle; there was the birth-place and oracle of Minerva; and there, Atlas supported both the heavens and the ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child
... a maze as e'er men trod; And there is in this business more than Nature Was ever conduct of:[463-48] some oracle Must rectify ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester


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