(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."
Prophetic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Prophetical
Example Sentences:
(1) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(2) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
(3) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
(4) And it was inevitable that Arabic character should precede over the character of the muhajireen, for the language of the Qur’an is Arabic, and the prophetic hadiths [sayings] are in Arabic and the customs of Islamic society were Arabic in great part, and in view of the nature of the local society of the peoples of Syria it was inevitable that Arabic character should be cultivated in the language and religious culture in the muhajireen and laying aside the foreign identity that bears in its hidden nature hostility to Islam, its culture and its roots.
(5) And if you get killed, then … you’ll enter heaven, God willing, and Allah will take care of those you’ve left behind.” Hijra is an Arabic word meaning “emigration”, evoking the prophet Muhammad’s historic escape from Mecca, where assassins were plotting to kill him, to Medina.
(6) And the Prophet (peace be upon him) was considered the master of the global Islamic message; it was necessary for him to be acquainted with what was happening around him in the neighbouring states, and knowing their latest affairs and thus inviting them to Islam.
(7) The opening lines of Hill's first completed (but second to be published) novel, Fell of Dark (1971), were clearly prophetic: "I possess the Englishman's usual ambivalent attitude to the police.
(8) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
(9) A prophetic anti-Cosby exchange makes the show all the more relevant.
(10) In a landmark speech in Cairo three years ago, Obama promised a "new beginning" in the relationship between his country and the Islamic world, but that relationship is now at its lowest point since the start of the Arab spring as a result of a YouTube video clip made by an Egyptian American insulting the prophet Mohamed.
(11) Despite what is often said, mostly by those who haven't read it, the book does not take direct aim at Islam or its prophet.
(12) Vilks, 68, outraged many Muslims in 2007 after he depicted the prophet Muhammad’s head on the body of a dog.
(13) The Doctors Mayo were strategic thinkers when it came to National Defense, and it is with a feeling of almost haunting prophetic significance to consider their timeless wisdom on preparedness as a means to ensure peace.
(14) In the packed cafe area at the top of Libération’s offices, where the surviving members of Charlie Hebdo have been working since Friday, editor-in-chief Gérard Biard held up the new edition of the magazine, which features a picture of the prophet Muhammad crying below the words “All is forgiven”.
(15) Younger persons can facilitate such growth for themselves and their elders by helping the aging to function as "prophets" for the younger.
(16) The prophets of doom will undeniably be proved right in the long run unless their basic assumptions are nullified by concrete acts, and soon.
(17) Also, it’s clear that the prophet Muhammad never specified a punishment for homosexuality; it wasn’t until some years after his death that Muslims began discussing what a suitable punishment might be.
(18) Prenatal care consisted of consultation with a prophet, wearing amulets, using herbal concoctions for bathing and drinking, and injections of herbal power to keep evil spirits away and guarantee safe delivery.
(19) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
(20) Taking as a starting point the American painter Alice Neel’s prophetic 1936 painting, Nazis Murder Jews , which depicts a Communist party torchlight parade through the streets of New York City, it collects new and recent pieces that address in different ways our own disorienting political moment.