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单词 augurial
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augurialadj.

Brit. /ɔːˈɡjʊərɪəl/, U.S. /ɔˈɡjʊriəl/, /ɑˈɡjʊriəl/
Forms: 1600s auguriall, 1600s– augurial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin augurialis.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin augurialis of augury (5th cent.) < classical Latin augurium augury n. + -ālis -al suffix1 Compare augural adj.
Of or relating to augurs or augury; augural.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [adjective]
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a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. iii. 85 Cled in a ryal rob auguriall.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iv. 16 Auguriall and Tripudiary divinations. View more context for this quotation
1683 G. Hickes Jovian vi. 142 He spent much of his time in Gazing upon Entrals, and making Augurial Observations.
1700 P. Danet Compl. Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. at Curia Saliorum The Augurial staff of Romulus was found intire, having receiv'd no hurt by the fire.
1775 London Evening-Post 5 Jan. The many examples which this great man has given..would have made it so common a case, as to be unworthy augurial speculation.
1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 119 Augurial rites Of volant fowl.
1895 H. D. Traill in B. Disraeli Sybil Introd. p. xix The augur who laughs when he meets a colleague, and the augur who does not, are both of them representatives of true augurial types.
1969 Mod. Philol. 67 62 Krappe..examines the augurial aspect of the raven's nature in European and Near Eastern cultures.
2001 C. A. Salgado From Modernism to Neobaroque iv. 155 With the Etruscans, augurial science was public knowledge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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