Augur
['ɔːgə] or ['ɔgɚ]
Definition
(noun.) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy.
(verb.) predict from an omen.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
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Definition
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see augurs in your dreams, is a forecast of labor and toil.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
One who bored the ancients with prophecies.
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Examples
- Mrs. Bute did not augur much good to the cause from the sending of her son James as an ambassador, and saw him depart in rather a despairing mood. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If he were to be very alert in engaging Jane Fairfax now, it might augur something. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We remained over a day, hoping that Augur might recover sufficiently to resume his travels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Not to know that there is something wrong at the Dedlocks' is to augur yourself unknown. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Lieutenant Augur was taken seriously sick before we reached Goliad and at a distance from any habitation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From the exterior of George's Shooting Gallery, and the long entry, and the bare perspective beyond it, Allan Woodcourt augurs well. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With earth-augurs, drills, and drill cleaning and clearing and fishing apparatus, and devices for creating a new flow of oil, and tubing, new forms of packing, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Lady Jane had heard of the Colonel's arrival, and was waiting for her husband in the adjoining dining-room, with female instinct, auguring evil. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was remarked that Mr. Osborne was particularly quiet and gentle all day, to the surprise of those who had augured ill from his darkling demeanour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Maria thought that her father was very much pleased with her, and Frederick augured the best for his little son and heir. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- From the first she had augured ill of Mme. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Crawley and his wife both of them augured evil from the continued presence of Mrs. Bute. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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