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oracle 音标拼音: ['ɔrəkəl] n. 神谕,神谕处,预言 神谕,神谕处,预言 oracle启示器; 启示程序 oracle启示 oracle n 1: an authoritative person who divines the future [ synonym: { prophet}, { prophesier}, { oracle}, { seer}, { vaticinator}] 2: a prophecy ( usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible 3: a shrine where an oracular god is consultedOracle \ Or" a* cle\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Oracled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Oracling}.] To utter oracles. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster]
Oracle \ Or" a* cle\, n. [ F., fr. L. oraculum, fr. orare to speak, utter, pray, fr. os, oris, mouth. See { Oral}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Whatso' er she saith, for oracles must stand. -- Drayton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given. [ 1913 Webster] The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster] The first principles of the oracles of God. -- Heb. v. 12. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Jewish Antiq.) The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself. -- 1 Kings vi. 19. [ 1913 Webster] Siloa' s brook, that flow' d Fast by the oracle of God. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. One who communicates an oracle[ 1] or divine command; an angel; a prophet. [ 1913 Webster] God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle. " Oracles of mode." -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 7. A wise pronouncement or decision considered as of great authority. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 98 Moby Thesaurus words for " oracle": Cassandra, Delphian oracle, Delphic oracle, Delphic tripod, Dodona, Pythian oracle, Python, adage, advice, ana, analects, answer, aphorism, apocalypse, apothegm, augur, augury, authority, axiom, byword, catchword, collected sayings, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, divination, diviner, doctor, elder, elder statesman, epigram, expression, fortune- teller, gnome, golden saying, great soul, guru, illuminate, intellect, intellectual, lover of wisdom, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, maxim, mentor, message, moral, mot, motto, philosopher, phrase, pithy saying, precept, prediction, prescript, prognostication, prognosticator, prophecy, prophet, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, rabbi, rishi, sage, sapient, savant, saw, saying, scholar, seer, sentence, sententious expression, sibyl, sloka, soothsayer, starets, stock saying, sutra, teaching, text, thinker, verse, vision, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise man, wise old man, wise saying, witticism, wizard, word, words of wisdom |
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