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† ˈominate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. ōminārī, -āre to prognosticate, f. ōmen, ōmin- omen.]
1. trans. To prognosticate from omens, to augur, forebode.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 82 By the God enstructed..to ominat eeche thing. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 327 The augurs, ominating disastrous and unfortunate things to the Romane army. 1742Middleton in Mrs. Montagu's Lett. II. 173 To whom I have ever been wishing and ominating every thing that is good.
b. intr. To augur, to have or utter forebodings.
1637Heywood Dial. ii. Wks. 1874 VI. 127 Of doubtfull things thus ill you ominate. 1667H. More Div. Dial. ii. i. (1713) 88, I cannot ominate so well touching this Congress.
2. trans. To be a prognostic of, to portend.
1598R. Barckley Felic. Man iii. (1603) 175 This unfortunate bird [i.e. an owl]..ominating some evill to followe. 1644Fifth of November 12 If the staggaring of the Arke of Gods worship should ominate the fall of it. 1706Phillips, To Ominate, to give an Omen of, to fore-bode or fore-shew. 1827Galt Let. in Ann. Parish Mem. (1850) 47, I had no vultures to omenate wars and conquests.
b. intr. To be or serve as an omen, to portend.
1667Decay Chr. Piety xv. §6 And this is it which ominates sadly as to our divisions with the Romanists. 1691North Let. 31 Dec. in Lives (1890) III. 228 May the new year be better than the beginning ominates. My brother Dudley died last night about seven.
Hence † ˈominating ppl. a.
1663Sir. G. Mackenzie Religious Stoic xiii. (1685) 116 These ominating presages. 1702H. Dodwell Apol. §16 in S. Parker Cicero's De Finibus, This..filled them with confidence and well ominating Hopes. |