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A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.

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A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecy or advice.

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A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given.

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A person considered to be a source of wisdom.

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a literary oracle

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A wise sentence or decision of great authority.

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

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A theoretical entity capable of answering some collection of questions.

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(Jewish antiquity) The sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.

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To utter oracles or prophecies.

The Oracle at Delphi actually got it right.

He is the man whom the oracle meant.

We will finally be able to build an oracle, and we will use that tool, that collection of life experiences, to optimize our own lives.

The most famous of these was the Oracle at Delphi.

And Croesus was so amazed that he endowed the Oracle at Delphi with all kinds of gifts and planned to run all-important questions by this oracle.

He returned to the Sanctuary, to the Oracle, who was busy scribbling.

Scholars today are pretty sure that in the case of Delphi, the oracle was inadvertently breathing gases that rose from the cave in which she sat.

I had to wait until you found your Oracle to tell you.

The Oracle probably knew how this day would end, which world would survive.

Even Jonny hesitated, eyes going to the pale Oracle.

Memories of a time when he'd been happy as the White God with his Oracle at his side.

The Oracle looked exhausted, worry on her features.

Sofi, the wife of the White God, Damian, was the most powerful Oracle Xander had ever met in his long history.

It was bad news for him, though, if the Oracle who hated him felt the need to warn him.

He might need to pay the Oracle a visit.

Or your Oracle could tell you.

Dusty's sharp order made the Oracle jump.

You took her to the Oracle?

The Oracle had to have told her husband something.

Oracle, she reminded herself.

Jessi met the Oracle's gaze curiously.

He felt the cool power of an Oracle move through Jessi and into him.

Her father, having been warned by an oracle that she would bear a son by whom he would be slain, confined Danae in a brazen tower.

After a period of instruction in medicine by a doctor who also, according to Lucian, was an impostor, he succeeded in establishing an oracle of Aesculapius at his native town.

The reputation of the oracle, which was in origin medical, spread, and with it grew Alexander's skilled plans of organized deception.

The result was a great disaster, and Alexander had recourse to the old quibble of the Delphic oracle to Croesus for an explanation.

These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself.

Farmer's Oracle, began publication in 1797.

As the final victory of Athens over Aegina was in 458 B.C., the thirty years of the oracle would carry us back to the year 488 B.C. as the date of the dedication of the precinct and the outbreak of hostilities.

Thus for the 7th, 14th, 21 st, 28th and also the 19th days of the intercalary Elul it is prescribed that "the shepherd of many nations is not to eat meat roast with fire nor any food cooked by fire, he is not to change the clothes on his body nor put on gala dress, he may not bring sacrifices nor may the king ride in his chariot, he is not to hold court nor may the priest seek an oracle for him in the sanctuary, no physician may attend the sick room, the day is not favourable for invoking curses, but at night the king may bring his gift into the presence of Marduk and Ishtar.

Troy he founded, in conjunction with Mopsus, another famous seer, the oracle of Mallos in Cilicia.

A list of the Elamite deities is given by Assur-bani-pal; at the head of them was In-Susinak, "the lord of the Susians," - a title which went back to the age of Babylonian suzerainty, - whose image and oracle were hidden from the eyes of the profane.

In response to an oracle he was bidden to move northwards to Judah and successfully occupied it with Hebron as his capital.

Laius, having been warned by an oracle that he would be killed by his son, ordered him to be exposed, with his feet pierced, immediately after his birth.

One makes him the son of Mandane, a daughter of Astyages (originally evidently by a god), who is exposed in the mountains by his grandfather on account of an oracle, but suckled by a dog (a sacred animal of the Iranians) and educated by a shepherd; i.e.

Alexander of Hales was the oracle of the Franciscans, while the rival order rejoiced in Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.

Moreover the Dorian population of Delphi constantly strove to establish its independence and about 590 B.C. induced a coalition of Greek states to proclaim a "Sacred War" and free the oracle from Phocian supervision.

The Delphic oracle bade them sacrifice a virgin of the house of Aepytus.

A special reference seems needed at this point to the oracle on Egypt, chap. xix.

He was afterwards worshipped as a hero and an oracle was consecrated to him.

The famous oracle of Amphiaraus was situated in the territory of Oropus, 12 stadia from the city.

Worshippers used to consult the oracle of Amphiaraus by sleeping on the skin of a slaughtered ram within the sacred building.

The Henriade had got on considerably during the journey, and, according to his lifelong habit, the poet, with the help of his friend Thieriot and others, had been "working the oracle" of puffery.

In consequence of an oracle which had commanded him to marry his daughters to a lion and a boar, he wedded them to Polyneices and Tydeus, two fugitives, clad in the skins of these animals or carrying shields with their figures on them, who claimed his hospitality.

When the tribe of Dan subsequently sought new territory and sent men to search for a suitable district they passed by Micah's house, recognized the Levite and requested an oracle from him.

Its situation, said to have been fixed by the Delphic oracle, was remarkable for beauty and security.

He had an oracle at Orchomenus, but during a plague it became L silent and remained so in Plutarch's time (De Defectu Oraculorum, 44).

The steady dependence of Sparta on the Delphic oracle, for example, is best explained as an observance inherited from Parnassian ancestors.

On this spot was the oracle of Trophonius in an underground cave; those who wished to consult it first offered the sacrifice of a ram and called upon the name of Agamedes.

They give no certain information as to the sacred cleft and other matters relating to the oracle.