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† oˈraculize, v. Obs. rare.
[f. L. ōrācul-um oracle + -ize.]
trans. To make an oracle of; to render, or hold as, oracular.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 127 That of Terence is oraculiz'd, Patres aequum censere nos adolescentulos [etc.].
Hence † oˈraculizer, one who constitutes himself an oracle, or plays the oracle.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 169 But he that sits on high..in foure and twenty houres after proved this great Oraculizer a compleat lier. |