auguraladj.
/ˈɔːɡjᵿrəl/, /ˈɔːɡjᵿrl̩/, U.S. /ˈɔɡ(j)ərəl/, /ˈɑɡ(j)ərəl/ 1. Of or relating to augurs or augury; spec. of or relating to the office of augur in ancient Rome (cf. augur n.1 1).
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [adjective]
augurala1522
auguriala1522
auguriana1522
auspicial1646
auspical1656
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. i. 51 With wordis augurall..Onto the flude onon furth steppis he.
1577 T. Newton tr. Cicero Fowre Severall Treat. f. 63v I studye the Augurall, Canon, and Ciuile lawe.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales ii. iii. 36 Going out at the Augural gate.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. x. 419 The Augurall discipline of the Hetrurians.
1665 G. Havers & J. Davies tr. Another Coll. Philos. Conf. French Virtuosi ccxxxv. 477 The Augural House was not cover'd but lay open to the air.
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 193 The augural Portent of the flight of Birds.
1725 G. Kelly tr. J. Morabin Hist. Cicero's Banishment 39 Cicero..wanted to find in the Augural College a Sanctuary against Persecution.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 365 They discovered..the augural staff of Romulus.
1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 58 The augural books of the Tuscans said that there were successive secles or ages assigned to states and empires.
1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §169 The consecrated enclosure for the observation of auspices,—the augural templum.
1874 A. Watson Cicero Select Lett. (ed. 2) iv. 441 Cicero says..that he is not basing his predictions on the rules of the augural system.
1929 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 19 170 Antony's conduct..was a double violation of augural practice.
1961 Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 117 149 The various augural gods possess distinctive personalities and characteristics.
2013 M. Koortbojian Divinization Caesar & Augustus iii. 76 The scene on the Vicus Sandaliarius altar is no more an image of augural performance than what we found on the coinage.
2. Indicative of or presaging the future; portending either good or bad events, results, etc.; auspicious; ominous. Also: indicative or suggestive of future events.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adjective]
prognosticate?a1425
prognostical?a1450
prognostaticc1475
portentousc1487
presagiousc1487
prodigiousc1487
prodigial1548
portending1560
augural1568
presaging1592
ominous1593
boding1594
portentive1594
prognostic1603
presageful1606
prognosticous1607
ostentful1608
prognosticant1619
predictious1631
portentful1633
ominal1651
ominating1663
bodeful1813
portentious1863
1568 N. Leigh tr. Erasmus Modest Meane to Mariage sig. B.vv By what Augurall signes I praye you, do you coniecture that it shalbe thus [L. quibus igitur auguriis colligis]?
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. xxvi. 266 The God..that sent unto him from above that augurall foule.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 65 Aristotle saith that sternutation was an augural signe.
1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. IV. 2457/2 He dream'd that a Cat scratch'd his face..certainly this was an augural Dream.
a1833 W. Sotheby tr. Homer Odyssey xv, in tr. Homer Iliad & Odyssey (1834) IV. 77 Heaven sent yon bird that pass'd thee on thy right: Soon as I saw I knew his augural flight.
1863 R. Browning Sordello v, in Wks. III. 408 Moody music augural of woe.
1893 Belgravia Feb. 176 A gift from such a near relative..must be augural in some way.
1928 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 48 6 A kind of bird whose cry is considered augural by the Igorots.
2012 Jrnl. Rec. (Oklahoma City) (Nexis) 29 Nov. The Oklahoma native worked on the film..for more than a year without realizing how augural his research into financial fraud would be.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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