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† ˈoracler Obs. [f. oracle n. or v. + -er1.] The giver of oracular responses; the priest or priestess of an oracle; any one claiming to be a medium of divine or diabolic communications.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. vii. v. (1886) 109 Ye shall see..the cousenage of these oraclers. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vi. 823 Pyrrhus (whom the Delphian Oracler Deluded). 1736Disc. Witchcr. 12 It is certain that Oraclers, when they pronounced their Oracles, did use to counterfeit strange Kinds of Voices. |