What is "oracular"

Usage examples of "oracular".

The reader who desires to know more about this oracular divinity, may consult the said doctor Alcofribas Nasier, who will usher him into the adytum through the medium of the high priestess Bacbuc.

Thus, in her first three issues, the Oracular Vulva delivered disquisitions on the erotic art of the Japanese painter Hiroshi Yamamoto, the epidemiology of syphilis, and the sex life of St.

It was easy to see that she thought herself in possession of it, so I had no hesitation in extracting her name from the oracular pyramid.

After we had taken coffee I said that if they liked we would have a game of cards, but Esther said that this would be a waste of time, as she would much prefer making the oracular pyramids.

I had said about her oracular abilities had been dictated merely by politeness, and she waited till we were alone to make me confess as much.

So following her, your hewing may attain The right to speak unto the mute, and shun That sly temptation of the illumined brain, Deliveries oracular, self-spun.

An oracular utterance is merely an extreme form of such a sentence, an incarnation in microcosmic form of the duality Butler depicts.

Nabokov said goodbye to Kerensky, a perfunctory farewell to Bunin, and descended the steps with the oracular, dark-bearded Merezhkovsky and the overpainted Gippius.

In fact, the language of Homer was one nobody, except epic bards, oracular priests or literary parodists would dream of using.

It is not we only, you and I, who look into the still waters of the wilderness and lonely places, and are often dimly perplext, are often troubled we know not how or why: some forgotten reminiscence in us is aroused, some memory, not our own, but yet our heritage is perturbed, footsteps that have immemorially sunk in ancient dusk move furtively along obscure corridors in our brain, the ancestral hunter or fisher awakes, the primitive hillman or woodlander communicates again with old forgotten intimacies and the secret oracular things of lost wisdoms.

Her priestesses, women known as the Volva, functioned as both oracular wise women and judges of Her principles of right living, justice, honor, and peace.

Apollo is said to have chosen it for an oracular shrine, on account of the effluvia which from thence proceeded.

She liked to try divining worlds from the grace of a gesture, the ebb of an expression, always aware, of course, of the ever-present danger of romanticizing our Third World brothers and sisters, but she was a professional, this was her job to observe with scientific detachment humanity in all its incarnations so that later, under footlights or a Panaflex lens, she might mimic the truth with oracular accuracy.

It was easy to see that she thought herself in possession of it, so I had no hesitation in extracting her name from the oracular pyramid.

After several answers, more obscure than any returned from the oracular tripod at Delphi, the interpretation of which I left to the infatuated Madame d'Urfe, she discovered herself--and I took care not to contradict her--that the Countess Lascaris had gone mad.