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单词 oraculist
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oraculistn.

Brit. /ɒˈrakjᵿlɪst/, /əˈrakjᵿlɪst/, /ɔːˈrakjᵿlɪst/, U.S. /ɔˈrækjələst/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin ōrāculum , -ist suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin ōrāculum oracle n. + -ist suffix. Compare earlier oracler n., oraclist n.
Now rare.
A communicator or interpreter of oracles; (in extended use) a person professing the wisdom or authority of an oracle.In quot. 1873: an Essene.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination through oracles > [noun] > medium or mouthpiece of the deity, oracle > self-appointed
oraculizer1634
oraculist1652
oracle-monger1673
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 310 It was answered by the divining Oraculists, that Augustus had onely a hundred dayes to live.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 363 And thus was it shuffled up betwixt the astrologers and the oraculists.
1873 Edinb. Rev. July 46 The Essenes, or Oraculists, professed to find in the Law a species of allegory.
2001 Bloomberg News (Nexis) 17 Apr. Inflation is ‘very well contained’, according to the oraculist Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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