† augurynen.
Obsolete. rare.
An augur, a diviner.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun] > augur, diviner from omens
augura1393
auguryne?a1425
conjectora1425
augurerc1450
augurizer1588
conjecturer1612
augurya1616
augurist1623
auspicator1652
omen-monger1777
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 111 I haue seen of paynemes & sarazines þat men clepen Augurynes [Fr. auguries] þat..wolde tell vs the pronosticaciouns of thinges þat fell after.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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