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.
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2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the
future; presage.
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From their flight strange auguries she drew.
--Drayton.
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He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave
little augury of his future greatness. --Prescott.
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3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
augury
n : an event that is experienced as indicating important things
to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from
God" [syn: sign, foretoken, preindication]
WordNet (r) 2.0
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "augury":
adumbration, anticipation, astrology, auspice, betokening,
betokenment, boding, clairvoyance, crystal ball, crystal gazing,
divination, divining, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing,
foretoken, foretokening, fortunetelling, haruspication, haruspicy,
horoscopy, indicant, indication, mantic, mantology, omen,
palm-reading, palmistry, portent, prefiguration, preindication,
premonition, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign,
premonitory symptom, presage, presentiment, presignifying,
prognostic, prognostication, promise, pythonism, shadow, sign,
soothsay, sorcery, token, tokening, type
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
foretoken, preindication, sign
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