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oracling

oracling is the present participle and gerund of oracle.

Meaning of oracle

Verb

oracle (third-person singular simple present oracles, present participle oracling, simple past and past participle oracled)

  1. (obsolete) To utter oracles or prophecies.
    • But this thy glory shall be soon retrench'd;
      No more shalt thou by oracling abuse
      The Gentiles; henceforth Oracles are ceast1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC

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Questions about oracling

What is oracling the present participle and gerund of?
Oracling is the present participle and gerund of oracle.

Words near oracling in the dictionary

  1. oracle machine
  2. oracle machines
  3. oracled
  4. oraclelike
  5. oracles
  6. oracling
  7. oracular
  8. oracularities
  9. oracularity
  10. oracularly
  11. oracularness

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