a priori vs oracular

a priori

adj
  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

oracular

adj
  • Ambiguous, hard to interpret. 

  • Of or relating to an oracle. 

  • Wise, authoritative. 

  • Prophetic, foretelling the future. 

How often have the words a priori and oracular occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )