AUGURY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

2.
n.

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.
n.

A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.


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