augury
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From augur + -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]augury (countable and uncountable, plural auguries)
- A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
- (by extension) An omen oder prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe:
- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- 1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
- No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
- 1950 August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 549:
- Fortunately many of the younger men are keen enough to make a success of their work, and this gives a better augury for the future.
- An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
- 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled![1]:
- Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:augury.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:omen
- zoomancy
Hyponyms
[edit]- ailuromancy, felidomancy (cats)
- alectryomancy (chickens)
- (ants)
- arachnomancy (spiders)
- auspice (birds)
- entomomancy (insects)
- hippomancy (horses)
- ichthyomancy (fish)
- myomancy (mice)
- myrmomancy
- ophiomancy (snakes)
- ornithomancy (birds)
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals
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an omen or prediction; a foreboding
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