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.

Noun

(en noun)

A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school.

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The index finger; the forefinger.

(Mormonism) The second highest office in the , held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.