Word Meanings - AUGUROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of augury; foreboding. "Augurous hearts." Chapman.

Related words: (words related to AUGUROUS)

• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• HEARTSOME
  Merry; cheerful; lively.
• HEARTSEED
  A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. Loudon.
• AUGUROUS
  Full of augury; foreboding. "Augurous hearts." Chapman.
• HEARTSICK
  Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• 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
• HEARTSTRING
  A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. Shak. Sobbing, as if a hearstring broke. Moore.
• FOREBODER
  One who forebodes.
• FOREBODING
  Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
• HEARTSTRICKEN
  Shocked; dismayed.
• CHAPMAN
  akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling
• HEARTSTRIKE
  To affect at heart; to shock. "The seek to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.
• HEARTSHAPED
  Having the shape of a heart; cordate.
• FOREBODE
  1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation,
• HEARTSTRUCK
  1. Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind. "His heartstruck injuries." Shak. 2. Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. Milton.