(a.) Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.
(a.) Ambiguous; mysterious.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Some clarity on these Delphic utterances up in Manchester would be greatly appreciated by the Tory economic right," he said.
(2) The bond strengths achieved with Prismafil were statistically significantly (P less than 0.05) lower than Heliosit and Delphic between which no significant differences were found.
(3) In the quest to categorise the delphic prime minister, it has become increasingly common to claim that her true purpose is to exploit Labour’s abject weakness to set the country on a madly rightwing trajectory.
(4) The ancient Greeks had Pythia, their Delphic Oracle; the Romans had their Vestal Virgins and, in Live and Let Die , Dr Kananga had his Solitaire.
(5) This delphic comment presumably refers to his planned onward trip to Cuba and Brazil.
(6) The length of the tags and the density of tagging observed on the replicas showed that the three composite materials, Adaptic, Concise and Delphic, adapted to the etched enamel surface equally as well as the unfilled resin Nuva Seal.
(7) There are a number of legal and contractual issues related to nuclear material in both the UK and EU, for which early resolution is important in providing the necessary legal certainty to operators and governments,” it adds delphically.
(8) European leaders tend to have a delphic mechanism for dealing with human rights in which they refer to an established dialogue on the issue which is then handled by lowly officials on the Chinese side.
(9) In a delphic radio interview today he hinted at his private doubts, saying: "I think you have got to respect the result of the general election and that we have lost."
Oracular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
(a.) Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly not for their oracular genius – the agencies have as much foresight as Mr Magoo.
(2) In October 2007, when MGMT arrived with their debut album, Oracular Spectacular , they made enough of an impact to sell half a million copies in the UK alone.
(3) It was something utterly new in the world, this Yankee lit-lingo - scriptural, oracular, densely and passionately wrought.