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Delphic   Listen
adjective
Delphic  adj.  (Gr. Antiq.)
1.
Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.
2.
Ambiguous; mysterious. "If he is silent or delphic."





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"Delphic" Quotes from Famous Books



... shoulder, calling me a Delphic oracle, and haled me from the premises through the garden gate, with the lightning rapidity of ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... Most Holy Father, if from time to time in the course of my narrative I repeat certain particulars, or allow myself some digressions. I feel myself carried away by a sort of joyous mental excitement, a kind of Delphic or Sibylline breath, when I read of these things; and I am, as it were, forced to repeat the same fact, especially when I realise to what an extent the propagation of our religion is involved. Yet amidst ...
— De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) - The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera • Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt
... ago, Mr. Seward again sent forth to Europe and to her Cabinets, one of his stale, and by no means Delphic oracles, predicting the success of Burnside's campaign, and immediately follows a bloody and disgraceful calamity! Such is always the result of Seward's prophecies! A diplomat calls Seward the ...
— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski
... generation of men, more than half perish in mind or body; the last ten, perhaps, win through, and these are they that have understood the writing over the temple door, the great 'Know thyself,' the precept of the Delphic Oracle and of all mystics before Trophonios ...
— The White Sister • F. Marion Crawford


Words linked to "Delphic" :   prophetic, prophetical, Delphian, Delphic oracle, oracular, Delphi


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