2) oracle. Roget s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.
...Something that is foretold by or as if by supernatural means: divination, prophecy, soothsaying, vaticination, vision. See FORESIGHT....

3) Oracle (Sir). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...A dogmatical person, one not to be gainsaid. The ancient oracles professed to be the responses of the gods, from which there could be no appeal. 1 "I am Sir Oracle,...

4) 513. Oracle. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
... NOUN: ORACLE; prophet, seer, soothsayer, augur, medium, clair-voyant, palmist, fortune teller, prophetess, sibyl, witch, geomancer, haruspice or aruspice, haruspex...

5) Delphic oracle. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Delphic oracle The most famous oracle in Greece, and the location of a temple of Apollo; it was also known as the oracle of Delphi. At the oracle, a priestess went...

6) Oracle. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Oracle, uninc. town (1990 pop. 3,043), Pinal co., S central Ariz., 31 mi/50 km NNE of Tucson. Cattle, sheep; alfalfa. Black Hills to N; Santa Catalina Mts., in part...

7) oracle. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...oracle, in Greek religion, priest or priestess who imparted the response of a god to a human questioner. The word is also used to refer to the response itself and...

8) oracle bones. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...oracle bones, bones used for divination by the Chinese during the Shang dynasty (traditionally c.1766 B.C.-c.1122 B.C.). Along with contemporary inscriptions on bronze...

9) Oracle of the Holy Bottle, Bacbuc. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...near Cathay, in Upper Egypt. Books iv. and v. of Rabelais are occupied by the search for this oracle. The ostensible object was to obtain an answer to a question...

10) Delphic oracle. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Delphic oracle, see Delphi, Greece....