Sentence:  In some of the Hebrides they attributed the same <WSD>oracular</WSD> power to a large black stone by the sea-shore, which they approached with certain solemnities, and considered the first fancy which came into their own minds, after they did so, to be the undoubted dictate of the tutelar deity of the stone, and, as such, to be, if possible, punctually complied with. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or relating to an oracle.