O-răc'ū-lar, a.
a. [From Lat. oraculum. See supra.]
Sense 1. Pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; as, an oracular tongue.
Sense 2. Resembling, or partaking of, the nature of an oracle; as, (a.) Grave or venerable, like an oracle. “Oracular shade.” Waller.
They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression. Pope.
(b.) Having the authority of an oracle; positive; authoritative; magisterial. (c.) Obscure; ambiguous, like the oracles of pagan deities.