Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (I) Formation of Ideas
Section VI. Extension of Thought
2. To the Future

513. Oracle.

   NOUN:ORACLE; prophet, seer, soothsayer, augur, medium, clair-voyant, palmist, fortune teller, prophetess, sibyl, witch, geomancer, haruspice or aruspice, haruspex or aruspex; Sibyl; python, pythoness, Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian (or Delphic) oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves; oak -, oracle- of Dodona; sorcerer [See Sorcerer]; interpreter [See Interpreter].
  WEATHER PROPHET, weather sharp [slang], weather bureau, Old Probabilities or Old Prob. [humorous nickname for U. S. weather bureau]; Old Moore, Zadkiel.
   QUOTATION:It is not enough for a prophet to believe in his message; he must believe in its acceptability.—Chesterton