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To retract or falsify a previous prediction. Milton.

A farewell; a bidding farewell. Donne.

One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.

Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion of leave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.

An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. Thackeray.

effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.

Praying or wishing good. [Obs.]"Apprecatory benedictions." Bp. Hall.

To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. It seems to augur genius. Sir W. Scott. I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. J. F. W. Herschel.

To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.] C. Middleton.

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.

ns or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay.

Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

Blessing; beatitude; benediction. Shak. More precious than the benison of friends. Talfourd.

; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

A Benedictine monk.

ation of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.

To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. Charles Reade.

A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief. A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses. A…