Hypertext Webster Gateway: "auguries"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Augury \Au"gu*ry\, n.; pl. {Auguries}. [L. aucurium.]
1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the
actions of birds, etc.; divination.

2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the
future; presage.

From their flight strange auguries she drew.
--Drayton.

He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave
little augury of his future greatness. --Prescott.

3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.


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