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Definition of Augury
1. Noun. An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come. "It was a sign from God"
Generic synonyms: Experience
Specialized synonyms: War Cloud, Omen, Portent, Presage, Prodigy, Prognostic, Prognostication
Derivative terms: Inaugurate
Definition of Augury
1. n. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
Definition of Augury
1. Noun. A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals. ¹
2. Noun. (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy. ¹
3. Noun. An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Augury
1. the practice of auguring [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Augury
Literary usage of Augury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael (1900)
"The people say that the Virgin made an augury when Christ was missing, and that
it was by means of this augury that Mary and Joseph ascertained that Christ ..."
2. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1896)
"OMENS AND augury IN PLAUTUS. BY CHARLES BURTON GULICK. OF all the topics relating
to ancient life which we find so abundantly illustrated in Plautus, ..."
3. Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell (1900)
"Where all is dark and inscrutable, deception and delusion are easy, and hence
augury of all kinds, omens, premonitions, divinations, have ever exercised a ..."
4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"Occult Sciences—Magical powers attributed by higher to lower races— Magical
processes based on Association of Ideas—Omens—augury, &c. ..."
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