[Greek: daelosin is alaetheian]; which expresses how different those divine oracles were from the false and equivocal demons.

Whilst the false oracles of demons deceived the idolatrous nations, truth had retired from among the chosen people of God.

like some heathen oracle that's strong on repetition and weak on vocabulary.

Implication N. {ant. 525} latency, inexpression^; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery, cabala^, anagoge^; silence &c (taciturnity) 585; concealment &c 528; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes [Fr.], undercurrent.

After tapping many topics, to which I made as dry answers as an unbribed oracle, he vented his errand.

They are supposed to be part of a prophetic oracle, delivered by the priests of the god Woden.

I will see that my servants be furnished with bibles and be able and careful to read the lively oracles.

" "A generous heart," said I, "is a better oracle than reason.

Walter Scott: voice of the golden oracle.

This opinion of his principles (let them be what they will) being once established in any one's mind, it is easy to be imagined what reception any proposition shall find, how clearly soever proved, that shall invalidate their authority, or at all thwart with these internal oracles; whereas the grossest absurdities and improbabilities, being but agreeable to such principles, go down glibly, and are easily digested.

Divisions of divination by the ancientsprodigies, etc. CHAPTER IV. History of OraclesThe principal oracles of antiquity.

It is well that young persons cannot read these fatal oracles of Nature.

There are unfortunate occasions on which one's favourite oracle perversely refuses to accommodate himself to one's own view.

And this flower-language, darling, let it be A heavenly oracle!

If the illumination of the Spirit is necessary to an understanding and a reception of scriptural truth, is it not by an inference more erudite than reasonable, that some great men have presumed to limit to a verbal medium the communications of Him who is everywhere His own witness, and who still gives to His own holy oracles all their peculiar significance and authority?

But, howsoever decried oracles were, impostors always found dupes; the grossest cheats having never failed.

Miss Lavinia proceeded, like an ancient oracle, impassible and infallible.

The government, no doubt, interfered; the pious impostors were punished and expelled by the police; every foreign worship not specially sanctioned was forbidden; even the consulting of the comparatively innocent lot-oracle of Praeneste was officially prohibited in 512; and, as we have already said, those who took part in the Bacchanalia were rigorously prosecuted.

As o'er the grandeur of unclouded heaven Our vision travels with a free delight, As though the boundless and the pure were made For speculationso the tow'ring mind, By inward oracle inspired and taught, The lofty and the excellent in mind adores.

Jehovah, however, was the one supreme king whom Isaiah acknowledged; and it was difficult to find in his strenuous life a logical or historical setting for these kingly oracles.

He catalogues libraries, settles affairs in China, pronounces judgment on men who marry women superior to themselves, flouts popular liberty, hammers Swift unmercifully, and adds a few miscellaneous oracles, most of which are about as reliable as his knowledge of the hibernation of swallows.

Just at that time Psyche has been exposed by the king on a mountain top in obedience to an obscure oracle.

Apollo was the first inventor of physic, divination, oracles; Minerva found out weaving, Vulcan curious ironwork, Mercury letters, but who prompted all this into their heads?

With anxious countenance and attentive ears, they listened to the cantrip effusions of these pretended oracles, which prognosticated the bright or gloomy days of futurity.

Legislation was developed through the "judgments" of priestly oracles.