单词 | unauspicious |
释义 | † unauspiciousadj. Obsolete. = inauspicious adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > lack of promise > [adjective] > inauspicious traversanta1500 ominous1589 inauspicious1599 unpropitious1613 unauspiciousa1616 obscene1656 traversary1851 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adjective] > of evil omen portentousc1487 shrewd1577 sinister1579 luckless1584 fatal1590 portentive1594 inauspicious1599 misboding1607 mal-ominous1612 ill-bodinga1616 unauspiciousa1616 portentful1633 ill-aboding1635 ill-omened1685 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 111 To whose ingrate, and vnauspicious Altars My soule the faithfull'st offrings haue breath'd out. View more context for this quotation 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. 1. 200 Some unauspitious Aspects of the Heavens. 1708 N. Rowe Royal Convert iv Seo. Haste, and break off your unauspicious Rites: The instant Dangers summon you away. 1768 Woman of Honor II. 232 To consummate so unauspicious a sacrifice as that must be. Derivatives Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > lack of promise > [adverb] > inauspiciously foulc1450 unpropitiously1602 inauspiciously1684 unauspiciouslya1797 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adverb] > in a portentous manner, ominously prodigiously?1550 darkly1597 portentously1656 inauspiciously1684 unauspiciouslya1797 bodingly1811 a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. x. 276 A Minister so unauspiciously seconded by fortune. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.a1616 |
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