noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
consult
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He was consulted as an oracle on all occasions, however inappropriate, and this was something which Warnie found insufferably annoying.
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At Delphi where he went to consult the oracle , the priestess looked at the matter just as he did.
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Frazer describes the process of consulting the oracle at the sanctuary dedicated to the soothsayer Ampiaraus, at Oropus, Attica.
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Perhaps Zeus consulted the oracle of Nyx, the primordial source of all, in order that he himself become fruitful.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apollo's oracle at Didyma near Miletus recommended an attack on the church.
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At Delphi where he went to consult the oracle , the priestess looked at the matter just as he did.
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His Democratic Party loyalty turned him into an oracle who foresaw electoral disaster for his party in 1980.
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It was a brave deed, for the oracle had said that he who landed first would be the first to die.
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Perhaps Zeus consulted the oracle of Nyx, the primordial source of all, in order that he himself become fruitful.
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The Bible as holy literature, the oracles of the Logos, has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation.
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This oracle speaks of a brother as the instrument of death, which fits with the case as it is yet known.