单词 | augurize |
释义 | augurizev. Now rare. transitive and intransitive. To augur, to divine from omens, to prophesy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > augur, divine from omens [verb (intransitive)] conject1496 halsen1587 preominate1594 augurize1596 augur1599 signa1616 ominate1637 augurate1642 conjecture1652 auspicate1848 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > augur, divine from omens [verb (transitive)] conjecturec1384 conject1496 augurate1571 augur1593 augurize1596 ominate1599 portend1605 ariolate1652 tell1891 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. G8 I augurize, this shall be done ere long. 1603 J. Savile Salut. Poeme in King James his Entertainm. sig. Cii When one..Could Augurize aright, foresee, foresay. 1664 T. Lowick Hist. Life & Martyrdom St George 11 Those you gods do call, Are manufacts and things inanimal, Wherein the damned spirits augurize, To make the simple give them sacrifice. 1860 Athenæum 29 Dec. 907/3 When stoled priests sacrificed and augurized, and classic poets listened and then took the lyre and sang. 1999 S. Wong et al. Bk. Lit. Design i. 1 Pards and tigers disport themselves gorgeously, dragons and phoenixes augurise in painted pomp. Derivatives ˈaugurizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun] whatec1000 conjecturec1384 conjecturingc1384 augurya1413 augurationc1450 augurism1584 halsening1587 auguring1614 augurizing1652 conjectation1652 teratoscopy1665 prognostication1688 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [adjective] > engaged in augury auguring1590 augurizing1652 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 305 Tush! quoth Hercules: the best augurizing is to fight valiantly for our countrey. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 319 Augurizing and aruspicall diviners. 1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal i. v. 27 As to the original tradition of the Art of Augurizing, he thinks the story of Tages so ridiculous, as it deserves not a confutation. 1994 World Lit. Today 68 815/1 There's none of Swift's savage indignation in any of this mostly disgruntled augurizing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1596 |
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