Oracle vs Divination - What's the difference?
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A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.
* Milton:
A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecy or advice.
A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given.
* Drayton:
A person considered to be a source of wisdom.
* Macaulay:
* Tennyson:
A wise sentence or decision of great authority.
One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.
* Milton:
(computing theory) A theoretical entity capable of answering some collection of questions.
(Jewish antiquity) The sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.
* Milton:
* Bible , 1 Kings 6:19, King James Version:
(uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
(countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
As a proper noun oracle
is (computing) a database management system (and its associated software) developed by the.As a noun divination is
(uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.oracle
English
(wikipedia oracle)Noun
(en noun)- The oracles are dumb; / No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
- Whatso'er she saith, for oracles must stand.
- a literary oracle
- The country rectors thought him an oracle on points of learning.
- oracles of mode
- God hath now sent his living oracle / Into the world to teach his final will.
- Siloa's brook, that flow'd / Fast by the oracle of God.
- And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.