Meaning of AUGURY
| Pronunciation: | | 'ogyuree
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| | Definition: | | [n] an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" |
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| | Synonyms: | | foretoken, preindication, sign |
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| | See Also: | | experience, omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, war cloud | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Au"gu*ry\, n.; pl. {Auguries}. [L. aucurium.]
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 . . . with a docility that gave
little augury of his future greatness. --Prescott.
3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
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| | Related Terms: | | adumbration, anticipation, astrology, auspice, betokening, betokenment, boding, clairvoyance, crystal ball, crystal gazing, divination, divining, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, fortunetelling, haruspication, haruspicy, horoscopy, indicant, indication, mantic, mantology, omen, palmistry, palm-reading, portent, prefiguration, preindication, premonition, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presentiment, presignifying, prognostic, prognostication, promise, pythonism, shadow, sign, soothsay, sorcery, token, tokening, type |
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