Oracle vs Angel - What's the difference?
oracle | angel |
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:
A divine and supernatural messenger from a deity, or other divine entity.
* Ben Jonson
(Abrahamic tradition) The lowest order of angels, below virtues.
A selfless person.
(military slang) An altitude, measured in thousands of feet.
An affluent individual who provides capital for a startup, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.
A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches.
* Bible, Rev. ii. 1
(obsolete) Attendant spirit; genius; demon.
(historical) An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael, and varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten shillings.
(slang) To support by donating money.
* {{quote-journal, year=1984
, title=American Magazine
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In obsolete terms the difference between oracle and angel
is that oracle is to utter oracles or prophecies while angel is attendant spirit; genius; demon.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.
Derived terms
* oracle machineSynonyms
* (priest acting as conduit of prophecy) prophet * (person who is a source of wisdom) expertAnagrams
* ----angel
English
(wikipedia angel)Alternative forms
* aynjel (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- The dear good angel of the Spring, / The nightingale.
- You made me breakfast in bed, you little angel .
- Climb to angels sixty.
- Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
*Hyponyms
* cherub, minion, power, principality, seraph, throneDerived terms
* angel's dram * angelfish * angelic * angel of death * angel of mercy * angelology * archangel * guardian angel * fallen angelDescendants
* Hawaiian:Verb
(en verb)citation, page=88 , passage=You've got to come to Chicago to meet Duell, and see Wilson, who's going to angel the show.}}