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( ); I had let her be in many things
my oracle, and perhaps no human being ought to be that. — The Life and
Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss;
• (oracular)- prophetic, uttered as if with divine authority, mysterious,
ambiguous; Dreams and visions during these fasts were looked upon
as oracular, and respected as the revelations of Heaven. — The Conquest of
Canada (Vol. 1 of 2);
• (prophesy)- to foretell or predict; A prophesier of false things for since
many a year hast thou been prophesying the downfall of this city, and now,
when thy prophecy has come true, thou sorrowest and mournest. — The
Legends of the Jews — Volume 4;
• (prophet)- a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration,
( ); The prayer of the prophet was answered from an unexpected quarter.
— William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist;
• a person who foretells or predicts what is to come, ( , ,
- );
• (vaticinator)- prophesier; I was also engaged as sporting prophet to the
Tipster, and was not less successful than my contemporaries as
a vaticinator of future events. — In the Wrong Paradise;
• (visionary)- given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable,
or unpractical ideas, views, or schemes, ( , , ,
, );
• a person of unusually keen foresight;
• a person who is given to audacious, highly speculative, or impractical ideas
or schemes; dreamer, ( , , , ); He was
decidedly a visionary, but a visionary of an uncommon and successful kind.
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus;
• (sibylline)- of, resembling, or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic; oracular,
( ); She smiled a certain
curious sibylline smile of hers. — Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of
Purpose;
• (apocalyptic)- pertaining to the Apocalypse or biblical book of Revelation,
( , ); By cracking the code of this
hidden chronology Nostradamus's apocalyptic prophecies of the near future
are revealed for the first time;
• (apocalypse)- Bible The Book of Revelation,( ;
- St John- ); His
kingdom of God was no doubt the approaching apocalypse, which was about