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An augur. Shak.

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  • AUGUR
    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. 2. One who foretells events by omens;
  • AUGURER
    An augur. Shak.
  • AUGURIAL
    Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.
  • AUGUROUS
    Full of augury; foreboding. "Augurous hearts." Chapman.
  • AUGURSHIP
    The office, or period of office, of an augur. Bacon.
  • AUGURY
    1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself
  • AUGURAL
    Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.
  • AUGURIZE
    To augur. Blount.
  • AUGURATE
    To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. C. Middleton.
  • AUGURIST
    An augur.
  • AUGURATION
    The practice of augury.
  • INAUGURATE
    Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
  • INAUGURATION
    1. The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne. 2. The formal beginning or initiation of any movement,
  • INAUGURATOR
    One who inaugurates.
  • REINAUGURATE
    To inaugurate anew.
  • INAUGUR
    To inaugurate. Latimer.
  • INAUGURATORY
    Suitable for, or pertaining to, inauguration. Johnson.
  • INAUGURATION DAY
    The day on which the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.
  • EXAUGURATION
    The act of exaugurating; desecration.
  • EXAUGURATE
    To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow. Holland.
  • INAUGURAL
    Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

 

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