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A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.
- The oracles are dumb; / No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.
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A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecies or advice.
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A prophetic response, often enigmatic or allegorical, so given.
- The several oracles included in this haftarah presumably were uttered at different times to the people in exile, presenting diverse themes and using distinct styles.
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Something said that must come true or cannot be countermanded; an inexorable command or declaration.archaicfiguratively
- Fight all couragiouſly and be you kings, I ſpeake it, and my words are oracles.
- Shee ſtiles her ſelfe their Chiefe, and ſweares ſhee will command; / And, what-ſo-ere ſhee ſaith, for Oracles muſt ſtand.
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A person considered to be a source of wisdom.
- a literary oracle
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A wise sentence or decision of great authority.
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A fortune-teller.
- "Madame de l'Hôpital has been quite la fée bienfaisante" said Lauzun, who, like others, had been consulting the oracle. "I am bewildered by my future good fortune. I quite anticipate being married, if it is to bring me all that she predicts
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One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.
- God hath now sent his living oracle / Into the world to teach his final will.
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The sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.Jewishhistorical
- And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
- Siloa's brook, that flow'd / Fast by the oracle of God.
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A theoretical entity capable of answering some collection of questions.
- Thus, an oracle machine (which enacts an oracle algorithm) would be like an ordinary Turing machine, except that adjoined to its ordinary computational operations would be another operation: ‘Call in the oracle and ask it whether C_q(n) sto
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