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Oracle vs Oath - What's the difference?

oracle | oath |

As nouns the difference between oracle and oath

is that oracle is a shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity while oath is a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract.

As verbs the difference between oracle and oath

is that oracle is to utter oracles or prophecies while oath is to pledge.

As a proper noun Oracle

is a database management system (and its associated software) developed by the Oracle Corporation

oracle

English

(wikipedia oracle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.
  • * Milton:
    • The oracles are dumb; / No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
  • 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:
    • Whatso'er she saith, for oracles must stand.
  • A person considered to be a source of wisdom.
    • a literary oracle
  • * Macaulay:
    • The country rectors thought him an oracle on points of learning.
  • * Tennyson:
    • oracles of mode
  • A wise sentence or decision of great authority.
  • One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.
  • * Milton:
    • God hath now sent his living oracle / Into the world to teach his final will.
  • (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:
    • Siloa's brook, that flow'd / Fast by the oracle of God.
  • * Bible , 1 Kings 6:19, King James Version:
    • And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

    Derived terms

    * oracle machine

    Synonyms

    * (priest acting as conduit of prophecy) prophet * (person who is a source of wisdom) expert

    Verb

    (oracl)
  • (obsolete) To utter oracles or prophecies.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    oath

    English

    (wikipedia oath)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract
  • * 1924 , Aristotle, Metaphysics , Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 3.
    • for they made Ocean and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the gods as being by water,
  • The affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an oath .
  • A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract the name of a deity in a profanity, as in swearing oaths .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths'. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "' oaths " and "swearing" itself.}}
  • A curse.
  • (legal) An affirmation of the truth of a statement.

    • Synonyms

  • pledge, vow, avowal

    • Derived terms

    * oathbound * oathbreaker * oathless * under oath

    Related terms

    * bloody oath (Australian slang) * fucking oath (Australian slang)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) to pledge
  • shouting out (as in 'oathing obsenities')

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "oath")

    Anagrams

    * (l)