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oracleor‧a‧cle /ˈɒrəkəl $ ˈɔː-, ˈɑː-/ noun [countable]   oracleOrigin: 1300-1400 French, Latin oraculum, from orare; ➔ ORATION - Apollo's oracle at Didyma near Miletus recommended an attack on the church.
- At Delphi where he went to consult the oracle, the priestess looked at the matter just as he did.
- His Democratic Party loyalty turned him into an oracle who foresaw electoral disaster for his party in 1980.
- It was a brave deed, for the oracle had said that he who landed first would be the first to die.
- Perhaps Zeus consulted the oracle of Nyx, the primordial source of all, in order that he himself become fruitful.
- The Bible as holy literature, the oracles of the Logos, has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation.
- This oracle speaks of a brother as the instrument of death, which fits with the case as it is yet known.
► Mythologycentaur, nounchimera, nounCyclops, noundeity, noundemigod, nounfaun, noungod, noungriffin, noungryphon, nounHades, nounlegend, nounlotus, nounmyth, nounmythic, adjectivemythical, adjectivenymph, nounoracle, nounsaga, nounsatyr, nounsphinx, nounwyvern, noun VERB► consult· He was consulted as an oracle on all occasions, however inappropriate, and this was something which Warnie found insufferably annoying.· At Delphi where he went to consult the oracle, the priestess looked at the matter just as he did.· Frazer describes the process of consulting the oracle at the sanctuary dedicated to the soothsayer Ampiaraus, at Oropus, Attica.· Perhaps Zeus consulted the oracle of Nyx, the primordial source of all, in order that he himself become fruitful. 1someone who the ancient Greeks believed could communicate with the gods, who gave advice to people or told them what would happen2a message given by an oracle3a person or book that gives advice and information – used humorously |