10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORACULOUS»
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oraculous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
oraculous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Oraculous Tales: Sword of the Ramurai
When Moo-Cow and his friends find themselves suddenly transported to ancient Japan, they are dazzled by clothes, food, and customs completely new to them.
2
The Fuzzy Philosopher (
Oraculous Tales Volume 2)
When the MCFC gang find themselves all decked out in robes and standing in the middle of an ancient Greek market, they know they've once again been drawn into one of Rhetorical's mysterious stories. For Kiweenie this is a dream come true.
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The Imperial Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New and Exhaustive ...
Let him oraculous, the end, the way Thw turns of all thy future fate display." Pope;
Homer's Odyssey, x. 642. 2. Ambiguous, obscure, equivocal. "As for equivocation
*", or oraculous speeches, they cannot hold out long." — Bacon: Essays; Of ...
It occurs in Bacon's essay 'Of Simulation and Dissimulation,' where the writer
says, " As for equivocations, or oraculous speeches, they cannot hold out long."
Archbishop Whately, in his edition of the ' Essays,' annotates this with "oracular,"
and ...
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A new dictionary of the English language ...
Oracular, oraculous, — having the ambiguity of an oracle ; ambiguous ;
equivocating ; having or pretending to the authority of an oracle ; autho ritative ;
affecting or pretending to wisdom or foresight. Why this a dream e, why that a
sweauen ...
^goilthe feathers of round4 flying up to the mark ; the second, ex Vi4- 1 Oraculous
. Oracular. ' He spoke oraculous and sly ; f; '' " He'd neither grant the question, nor
deny.' — King. * Of. From. ' Mako to yourselves friends of the mammon of ...
Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, 1882
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately
1 Oraculous. Oracular. ' He spoke oraculotu) and sly; He'd neither grant the
question nor deny.' — King. 3 Fair (adverb). Complaisantly. ' Thus fair they parted
till the morrow's dawn.' — Dryden. 4 Round. Direct. ' Let her be round with him.
Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.), Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin), 1856
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The London encyclopaedia: or Universal dictionary of ...
ObaCdloiJs, Ohac'ulously, adv. OraC'CLOUSNESS, 71. s. speak). Something
delivered by superior or supernatural wisdom ; the place where, or person by
whom, such communications are delivered : to utter oracles : oracular and
oraculous, ...
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The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition
As for equivocations, or oraculous' speeches, they cannot hold out long ; so that
no man can be secret, except he give himself a little scope of dissi~ mulation,
which is, as it were, but the skirts or train of secrecy. But for the third degree,
which is ...
Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, 1858
His ephod, mitre, well-cut diadem, on ; " Th' oraculous stones on his rich breast-
plate shone. " Tow'rds the blue curtain: of God's holiest place 190 " (The temple's
bright third heaven) he turn'd his face; '5 Thrice bow'd he, thrice the solemn ...
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