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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. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.

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

The practice of augury.

An augur. [Obs.] Shak.

Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.

An augur. [R.]

To augur. [Obs.] Blount.

Full of augury; foreboding. [Obs.] "Augurous hearts." Chapman.

The office, or period of office, of an augur. Bacon.

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.

To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow. [Obs.] Holland.

The act of exaugurating; desecration. [Obs.]

To inaugurate. [Obs.] Latimer.

Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton.

ducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne.

The day on which the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.

One who inaugurates.

Suitable for, or pertaining to, inauguration. Johnson.