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Webster 1913 Edition

Augury

Au′gu-ry

,
Noun.
;
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Augury

AU'GURY

,
Noun.
[L. augurium.]
1.
The art or practice of foretelling events by the flight or chattering of birds.
2.
An omen; prediction; prognostication.

Definition 2024

augury

augury

English

Noun

augury ‎(plural auguries)

  1. A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
  2. (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
    • Edgar Allan 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.
  3. An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
    • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!:
      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.

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Etymology

augur +‎ -y, or from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.

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