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Definition of Oracles
1. oracle [n] - See also: oracle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oracles
Literary usage of Oracles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"Alexander had some fellow-feeling for these oracles, which were of a similar
description to his own, and replied to the priest, that that was not permitted ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"Where it is not to be doubted, but that those reputed oracles of Hierocles were
the same with these magic or Chaldaic oracles ; because these are frequently ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"each other, and their oracles, which were adjacent, had great celebrity in times
succeeding the commencement of our era, and one of the most curious stories ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1890)
"THE SIBYLLINE oracles.*—In a brief Introduction, the translator enumerates passages
from Justin Martyr, Clemens of Alexandria, Lactantius, and others, ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1764)
"Some have attributed the the oracles of Dodona to oaks, others to pigeons. ...
The manner of delivering the oracles of Dodona was very ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"Moreover, that there was also in these magic or Chaldee oracles, a clear
signification of a divine triad, hath been already declared. ..."
7. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"These Roman oracles originally were not so much predictions of woes to come, like
apocalyptic tracts, as explanations of what was required to avert the ..."
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