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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

auguralis

Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant;

as, an

augural

staff;

augural

books.

“Portents augural.”

Cowper.

Adj.

[L. auguralis.] Pertaining to an augur, or to prediction by the appearance of birds. The Romans had their augural staff and augural books.