oracle

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1. oracle - Noun

2. oracle - Verb

3. Oracle - Proper noun

Meaning

The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.

Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.

The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural.

The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.

Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle.

To utter oracles.

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Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision. Thomas Jefferson

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. Luis Barragán

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network. Marc Andreessen

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided. Ted Nelson

He was my counsel in affairs, was my oracle in taste, the standard to whom I submitted my trifles, and the genius that presided over poor Strawberry. Horace Walpole

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