oracle

The oracles are dumb; / No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.

The several oracles included in this haftarah presumably were uttered at different times to the people in exile, presenting diverse themes and using distinct styles.

Fight all couragiouſly and be you kings,

I ſpeake it, and my words are oracles.

a literary oracle

"Madame de l'Hôpital has been quite la fée bienfaisante" said Lauzun, who, like others, had been consulting the oracle. "I am bewildered by my future good fortune. I quite anticipate being married, if it is to bring me all that she predicts."

God hath now sent his living oracle / Into the world to teach his final will.

And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

Thus, an oracle machine (which enacts an oracle algorithm) would be like an ordinary Turing machine, except that adjoined to its ordinary computational operations would be another operation: ‘Call in the oracle and ask it whether C_q(n) stops; […]

For example, an oracle may send temperature data reported by the National Weather Service or report the daily LIBOR rate to a smart contract.