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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 orac·u·lar /ɔˈrækjəlɚ/
 (a.)神諭的,神論似的,謎似的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 O·rac·u·lar a.
 1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
    They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.   --Pope.
 -- O*rac*u*lar*ly, adv. -- O*rac*u*lar*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 oracular
      adj 1: of or relating to an oracle; "able by oracular means to
             expose a witch"
      2: obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular
         message" [syn: Delphic]
      3: resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular
         sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests
         might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile" [syn: enigmatic]