Definition of Oracle

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Oracle

The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.

Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.

The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural.

The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.

One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.

Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle.

A wise sentence or decision of great authority.

To utter oracles.

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Oracle Quotations

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
Robert Rauschenberg

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
Luis Barragan

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
Richard Cobden

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
Ted Nelson

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.
Margaret Carlson

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
Lord Salisbury

Oracle Translations

oracle in Dutch is orakel
oracle in German is Orakel
oracle in Italian is oracolo
oracle in Latin is oraculum
oracle in Swedish is orakel

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