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oracularly, adv.|ɒˈrækjʊləlɪ|
[f. oracular + -ly2.]
In an oracular manner. a. In the solemn, authoritative, or sententious manner of an ancient oracle.
1771Burke Powers Juries in Libels Wks. 1877 VI. 162 A timid jury will give way to an awful judge delivering oracularly the law. 1788Reid Aristotle's Log. i. §1. 3 He delivers his decisions oracularly. 1884Truth 13 Mar. 380/2 Mr. Justice Stephen, speaking oracularly, declared that there was no law against human cremation ‘if effected without nuisance to others’.
b. With the obscurity or ambiguity of the responses of the ancient oracles; enigmatically.
1864Daily Tel. 17 May, Utterances even more oracularly ambiguous are ascribed to him at Washington. |