oracular

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ORAC'ULAR, ORAC'ULARLY, ORAC'ULOUS, adjective 1. Uttering oracles; as an oracular tongue. The oraculous seer. 2. Grace; venerable; like an oracle; as an oracular shade. They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression. 3. Positive; authoritative; magisterial; as oraculous expressions of sentiments. 4. Obscure; ambiguous, like the oracles of pagan deities.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

More founding-era words: liberty · virtue · republic · justice · providence · commerce · militia · arms · prudence · establishment · religion · usurpation · tyranny · citizen · unalienable · sovereign