单词 | augurate |
释义 | auguraten. Roman History. The office of augur (augur n.1 1); the augurship. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun] > augur, diviner from omens > office of augurship1576 augurate1729 1729 R. Bundy in tr. F. Catrou & P.-J. Rouillé Rom. Hist. II. xix. 46 (margin) Plebeians admitted into the Pontificate, and Augurate. 1741 C. Middleton tr. Cicero in Hist. Life Cicero I. iv. 333 Tell me..since Nepos is leaving Rome, who is to haue his brother's Augurate [L. Auguratus]. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlix. 482 The formal dignity of the Augurate. 1895 Classical Rev. 9 125/2 Cicero's desire for the augurate. 1975 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 79 197 The date of Cicero's election to the augurate. 2008 Phoenix 62 294 Returning to Caesar's coin, it is immediately evident that the implements portrayed are those of the pontificate, not the augurate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). auguratev. Now rare. a. transitive. To predict or forecast from signs or omens; (in weakened use) to suppose, to speculate; to anticipate, to expect. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > augur, divine from omens [verb (transitive)] conjecturec1384 conject1496 augurate1571 augur1593 augurize1596 ominate1599 portend1605 ariolate1652 tell1891 1571 E. Grant tr. Plutarch President for Parentes sig. D.iijv Which..haue labored by the chaunting vpon the cords of their pleasaunt tong, to augurate the fauour, and to hunt for the vayne commendation of the fickle and inconstant people. 1588 Ld. Maitland Let. 20 Sept. in Warrender Papers (Nat. Rec. Scotl. GD1/371 vol. A) 243 I will augurate a spedye and happye end. 1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders (1654) 167 Should not we, then..augurate [It. augurare] good success to our undertakings? a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) II. 102 But this present defect (for I augurate an approaching remedy) is amply recompens'd by every thing besides. 1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 358 They should augurate from the Excellence of his [sc. the governor's] Character, that his Administration would be excellent. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. xlvi Whence he may augurate that I have a larger scheme in reserve. b. intransitive. To make predictions or forecasts from signs or omens; to conjecture, to speculate; (with adverb) to have expectations or make predictions of the specified kind. Cf. augur v. 2, augur v. 4a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > augur, divine from omens [verb (intransitive)] conject1496 halsen1587 preominate1594 augurize1596 augur1599 signa1616 ominate1637 augurate1642 conjecture1652 auspicate1848 1642 Great Brjttajnes Distractions 3 If I Augurate aright, you have cause to side with me. 1660 T. Salusbury tr. D. Bartoli Learned Man defended & Reform'd ii. 160 All the thefts of light, made upon the wheels of Apollo's Chariot; which are (if I do not ill augurate) the Books of the most celebrious Wits, [etc.]. 1781 G. Horne Serm. before Univ. Oxf. 18 From the political state of a nation, common sense, as well as the experience of past ages, forbids us to augurate favourably, when having been drained of its treasures, [etc.]. 2. transitive. To inaugurate. Cf. augur v. 5. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)] > inaugurate auspicate1611 augurate1624 to usher in1646 inaugurate1755 augur1865 1624 I. Bargrave Serm. preached before Lower House of Parl. 3 That memorable Redemption of mankind..he himselfe augurated by the solemne Sacrament of his last Supper. 1965 M. Craft Ten Stud. Psychopathic Personality vii. 77 Other authors..have not been so successful in augurating a therapeutic community. DerivativesΚΠ 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Cicero in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 713 Navius having performed his Augurating Ceremonies [L. augurio acto], replied, that the thing might be done. 1679 E. Sherburne in tr. Seneca Troades iv. i. 98 (margin) The person that perform'd the Augurating Office was called Auspex. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. Augurating, l'Action d'augurer, de Conjecturer, &c. Augure, Conjecture, Presage, Pressentiment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1729v.1571 |
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