Tarot vs Oracle - What's the difference?
tarot | oracle |
(singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.
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:
As a noun tarot
is tarot.As a proper noun oracle is
(computing) a database management system (and its associated software) developed by the.tarot
English
(wikipedia tarot)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed. *: [...] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon. * 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140445803&id=lRbXDsA9u4AC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&sig=s0cNY_83AgaK_TWOEA1qpv95tuQ] *: They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot . *: As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another. * 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0199246297&id=hGm9Dj5OmF8C&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&sig=rjtFvOxVBgk1cro3fLQ5bLn9Eqw] *: In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; [...]Anagrams
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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.