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augury::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | foretoken, preindication, sign |
| Type of | experience |
| Has types | omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication, war cloud |
| Derivation | inaugurate |
he hoped it was an augury.
Examples of augury
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When Po and his friends arrive on the scene the augury appears to be coming true.
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Plato notes that hepatoscopy held greater prestige than augury by means of birds.
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Romulus goes on to found the city of Rome at the site of his successful augury.
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On the surface, such an uninspiring recovery may be seen as an augury of further woes.
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It is also perhaps a favourable augury for the next chapter in the province's history.
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Today's augury on drones makes the same facile predictions and uses the same rhetoric.
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This had arrived as early as 28 seconds as the first augury of Brazil's soured dream.
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Claudius, on the other hand favoured augury and banned astrologers from Rome altogether.
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He may have surfaced in Chicago, but his potential fame defies augury.
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- An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God"
- The augur was a priest and official in the classical world, especially ancient Rome and Etruria. His main role was to interpret the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds: whether they are flying in groups/alone, what noises they make as they fly, direction of flight and what kind of ...
- Augury is a technical death metal band from Montreal, Canada who released their debut album, Concealed in September 2004 on Galy Records, and a follow-up, Fragmentary Evidence, in July 2009 on Nuclear Blast Records.
- A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals; An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy
- Is the general term for the art of divination and is chiefly applied to interpretations of signs and omens.
- Divination that ranks a set of given possibilities. It can be qualitative (such as shapes, proximities, etc.): for example, dowsing developed from this type of divination. The Romans in classical times used Etruscan methods of augury such as hepatoscopy. ...
- A portent or omen; the foretelling of events by signs or omens
- Divination by means of whatever is most handy at the time.
- Divination by the interpretation of omens or chance phenomena.
