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augural, a.|ˈɔːgjʊərəl|
[ad. L. augurālis, f. augur: see augur n. and -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to augurs or augury.
1513Douglas æneis ix. i. 51 Wyth wordis augurall..Onto the flude anone furth steppis he. 1598Greenwey Tacitus' Ann. ii. iii, Going out the Augurall gate. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici 193 The augural Portent of the flight of Birds. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 167/2 They discovered..the augural staff of Romulus. 1850J. Leitch Müller's Anc. Art §169 The consecrated enclosure for the observation of auspices,—the augural templum.
2. Significant of the future; betokening either good or ill; lucky or ominous.
1600Holland Livy vii. xxvi. 266 The God..that sent unto him from above that augurall foule [præpetem]. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 65 Aristotle saith that sternutation was an augural signe. 1863Browning Sordello v. Wks. III. 408 Moody music augural of woe. |