ORAC'ULOUS, a. 1. Uttering oracles; as an oracular tongue.The oraculous seer.2. Grace; venerable; like an oracle; as an oracular shade.They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.3. Positive; authoritative; magisterial; as oraculous expressions of sentiments.4. Obscure; ambiguous, like the oracles of pagan deities.
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