It borrows material from the system of objective conceptions and historical circumstances and uses it to explain in narrative or teaching, in oracular utterance or rule, in controversy or judicial pronouncement, what it has to say of the pure relation between God and man. (religion-online.org)
He was routinely consulted for oracular pronouncements on everything from time travel and alien life to Middle Eastern politics and nefarious robots. (newscientist.com)
Bohr, an almost oracular figure in 20th - century physics, argued that when studying the atomic world, physicists must give up the notion of a reality that exists independently of their own measurements. (discovermagazine.com)