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What does oracular mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to an oracle.
  2. Prophetic, foretelling the future.
  3. Wise, authoritative.
  4. Ambiguous, hard to interpret.
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Thus the same articulation pertains in the Panhellenic Games as in the order of the oracular consultation.
What she has to say about the Victorians, or Bloomsbury, Yates, the Pre-Raphaelites, or more modern writers has at times an oracular quality.
During a divination, they construct usable knowledge from oracular messages.
A further oracular pronouncement has effectively restored Oedipus's free will.
Laius set off to ask the oracular Pythoness at Delphi how to deal with this monster.
While the poetry is cryptic, allusive and ambiguous, the prose is lucid, oracular, loftily self-assured.

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