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O*rac"u*lar (?), a. [L.
oracularius. See Oracle.]

1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering
oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular
tongue.

2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in
solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity,
dogmatism.

They have something venerable and oracular in
that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.

-- O*rac"u*lar*ly, adv. --
O*rac"u*lar*ness, n.

O*rac"u*lous (?), a. Oracular; of
the nature of an oracle. [R.] "Equivocations, or
oraculous speeches." Bacon. "The oraculous
seer." Pope. -- O*rac"u*lous*ly,
adv. -- O*rac"u*lous*ness,
n.

O*ra"gious (?), a. [F. orageux.]
Stormy. [R.]

Or"ai*son (?), n. See
Orison. [Obs.] Shak.

O"ral (?), a.


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