Oracular vs Oracularly - What's the difference?
oracular | oracularly |
Of or relating to an oracle.
* 1810, Sir Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake
* 2006, Lisa Hill,
Prophetic, foretelling the future.
* 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon
Ambiguous, hard to interpret.
* 1754, Horace Walpole, letter to John Chute
* 1895, Andrew Dickson White, History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
As an adjective oracular
is of or relating to an oracle.As an adverb oracularly is
in an oracular manner.oracular
English
Adjective
(head)- In some of the Hebrides they attributed the same oracular power to a large black stone by the sea-shore, which they approached with certain solemnities, and considered the first fancy which came into their own minds, after they did so, to be the undoubted dictate of the tutelar deity of the stone, and, as such, to be, if possible, punctually complied with.
Passionate Society: the social, political and moral thought of Adam Ferguson
- Ferguson's sin consisted in his oracular 'unmasking' of a 'second-rate sort of society, full of second rate citizens, pursuing comparatively worthless objects.'
- My Lord Chatham, whose wisdom his party in those days used to call superhuman, raised his oracular voice in the House of Peers against the American contest;
- Nothing offended me but that lisping Miss Haughton, whose every speech is inarticulately oracular .
- This utterance was admirably oracular , being susceptible of cogent quotation by both sides