Augur

['ɔːgə] or ['ɔgɚ]

解释:

(noun.) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy.

(verb.) predict from an omen.

编辑:罗赞娜--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

(n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.

(v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

(v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

(v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.

杰米整理

同义词及近义词：

n. Soothsayer, prophet, fortune-teller.

v. n. Prophesy, conjecture, predict, guess.

v. a. Portend, forebode, presage, foreshow, foreshadow, prognosticate, betoken, foretell, predict, prophesy, be ominous of.

昌西整理

解释:

n. among the Romans one who gained knowledge of secret or future things by observing the flight and the cries of birds: a diviner; a soothsayer.—v.t. to foretell from signs.—v.i. to guess or conjecture: to forebode.—adj. Au′gural.—ns. Au′gurship; Au′gury the art or practice of auguring: an omen.—The words Au′gurate and Augurā′tion are obsolete.

整理:莱昂内尔