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What does Delphic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to Delphi or its oracles.
  2. Obscurely prophetic.
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We should be careful, because the Delphic Oracle used cryptic answers that often left the inquisitor more confused than helped.
Croesus asks the Delphic oracle what will happen if he attacks the Persians.
Papal pronouncements concerning the war in Abyssinia in 1935-6 had been Delphic.
In addition to the two most famous Delphic exhortations, we have copies of inscriptions from two columns at the temple itself.
Are we looking for a Delphic Oracle in the Scriptures, especially in Revelation?
Reporters are given the odd Delphic comment and, using their political antennas, then pin the story together.

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