Delphic

Example Sentences

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The court’s fairly Delphic order retains a stay on the case pending its consideration of the merits, with oral arguments scheduled for the week of April 22.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2024

Pythagoras himself was said to have been inspired to study philosophy by the Delphic priestess Themistoclea.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Its king, Oedipus, desperate to understand why the gods have called such a plague down upon his realm, sends an emissary to the famed Delphic Oracle to find out.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2020

“Wily and ruthless, Delphic and adept, he is the best of breed of a new kind of back room bonze,” the profile continued, using another word for Buddhist monk.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2019

He had left his home, Corinth, where he was held to be the son of the King, Polybus, and the reason for his self-exile was another Delphic oracle.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton