From .

• (British) IPA: /ɒɹˈæk.juː.lə/, /ɔːˈɹæk.juː.lə/
• (America) IPA: /ɔˈɹæk.ju.lɚ/, /ɔˈɹæk.jə.lɚ/

1. Of or relating to an oracle.
   • 1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the stanza number):

     In some of the Hebrides they attributed the same oracular power to a large black stone by the sea-shore, which they approached with certain solemnities, and considered the first fancy which came into their own minds, after they did so, to be the undoubted dictate of the tutelar deity of the stone, and, as such, to be, if possible, punctually complied with.

2. Prophetic, foretelling the future.
   • 1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem. […], London: Edward Moxon […], published 1832, →OCLC ↗:

     And that slaughter to the Nation / Shall steam up like inspiration, / Eloquent, oracular; / A volcano heard afar.

3. Wise, authoritative.
   • 1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC ↗:

     My Lord Chatham, whose wisdom his party in those days used to call superhuman, raised his oracular voice in the House of Peers against the American contest;

4. Ambiguous, hard to interpret.
   • 1754, Horace Walpole, letter to John Chute:

     Nothing offended me but that lisping Miss Haughton, whose every speech is inarticulately oracular.

• oracle

• German: orakelhaft, orakelmäßig
• Portuguese: oracular

• German: orakelhaft, orakelmäßig
• Portuguese: oracular
• Russian: пророческий

• Russian: зага́дочный