oraculatev.
/ɒˈrakjᵿlət/, /əˈrakjᵿleɪt/, /ɔːˈrakjᵿleɪt/, U.S. /ɔˈrækjəˌleɪt/ transitive and intransitive. To say or speak oracularly.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination through oracles > utter as an oracle [verb (transitive)]
oraclec1595
oraclize1648
oraculate1822
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination through oracles > speak as an oracle [verb (intransitive)]
oracle1654
oraclize1709
oraculate1919
1822 E. Nathan Langreath II. 315 I think I behold you shaking your wise head..as you would oraculate, ‘the simple Madelina little suspects’ [etc.].
1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast i. i. 32 He boomed and oraculated and the Misses Wymondham prattled.
1930 J. Buchan Castle Gay viii. 134 The Professor oraculated on letters, with an elephantine deference to his hearers' opinions.
1996 P. Johnson Quest for God iii. 25 Wooden idols..had hidden recesses in which the devil-priests had concealed themselves while oraculating.
2002 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 1 Jan. (Fiction section) Girzone..oraculates his story in parables.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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