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Definition of Oracularly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oracularly
Literary usage of Oracularly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Saracinesca by F[rancis] Marion Crawford (1887)
"ance are two things," he said, oracularly. The Prince burst into a loud laugh.
" Most people would say that! Eat your dinner, Giovanni, and do not talk ..."
2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Bernhard Pick, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies (1886)
"For why do they oracularly foretell cures after a long time? And why, if they
are almighty, do they not effect cures without administering any medicine ? ..."
3. Enchanters of Men by Ethel Colburn Mayne (1909)
"Beauty we do not hope for; at sixteen, mirrors speak but oracularly, and there
are truth-tellers around us who speak not oracularly at all. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1901)
"oracularly ' applicable to the guidance of man. This title was already in use to
denote, in their oracular aspect, the Scriptures of the ОТ, and Papias here ..."
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