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verb

Augur v. t. To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. "It seems to augur genius." "I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with."

Synonyms: To predict; forebode; betoken; portend; presage; prognosticate; prophesy; forewarn.

Augur v. i. (past & past part. augured; pres. part. auguring)

To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow. "My auguring mind assures the same success."

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

noun

Augur n.

(Rom. Antiq.) 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.

One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. "Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... under Diodotus the Stoic, and in 88 B.C. attended the lectures of Philo, the head of the Academic school, whose devoted pupil he became. He studied rhetoric under Molo (Molon) of Rhodes, and law under the guidance of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the augur and jurisconsult. After the death of the augur, he transferred himself to the care of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex maximus, a still more famous jurisconsult, nephew of the augur. His literary education at this period consisted largely of verse-writing and ...

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— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 • Various

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