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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Greek Mythology Of or relating to Delphi or to the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
- adjective Obscurely prophetic; oracular.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Delphian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Gr. Antiq.) Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that place.
- adjective Ambiguous; mysterious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
Delphi or itsoracles . - adjective
Obscurely prophetic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to Delphi or to the oracles of Apollo at Delphi
- adjective obscurely prophetic
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Examples
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It recalls the Delphic oracle's reply when Croesus asked if he should declare war on Persia.
Simon Jenkins: Face Down the Militarists and Get Out of Afghanistan 2009
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At Lady Miller's home, aspiring poets would meet and socialise placing their work into a large urn, known as The Delphic Vase.
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Pre-eminent among all such unions was that known as the Delphic
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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It recalls the Delphic oracle's reply when Croesus asked if he should declare war on Persia.
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We have some kind of Delphic signals from Judge Roberts.
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Having been given accommodation in the emergency tent for the night, he took me by divers ways to a bell tent in which I found two or three men of Paget's Horse, acquaintances of the "Delphic" days, another Sussex man, and a large washing basin containing beer -- obtained no matter how.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross
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There the transport "Delphic" received us, together with a squadron of Paget's
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross
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Eventually the slow but sure S.S. "Delphic," having stopped at St. Helena to land bullocks for Cronje, Schiel and their friends, disgorged us at Cape Town.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross
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The Count, pursuing some other line of thought, broke out into a kind of Delphic rhapsody:
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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Very often they are truly "Delphic," with a most dubious meaning -- as in that oft-quoted instance, when the Pythia told Crsus if he went to war with Cyrus,
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903
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