Word Meanings - AUGURIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To augur. Blount.

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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.