Augur is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AUGUR in dictionary:

VERB:
• to foretell from signs
• (of an event or circumstance) portend a good or bad outcome
• portend or bode (a specified outcome)
• foresee or predict.
• be a sign of (future events)
• To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
• To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.
• To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.
• indicate by signs
• predict from an omen
NOUN:
• (in ancient Rome) a religious official who observed natural signs, especially the behaviour of birds, interpreting these as an indication of divine approval or disapproval of a proposed action.
• An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.
• One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.
• (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy
• religious official who interpreted omens
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to foretell from omens

Words related to AUGUR

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Words that contain AUGUR

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How to use AUGUR in a sentence

• It was also the business of the augur to interpret dreams, oracles, and prodigies.
• The war bonnets which I had captured I turned over to General Carr, with the request that he present them to General Augur, whose daughters were visiting at the post at the time.
• Thou wert born when the conjunction of the planets did augur a life of perfect beatitude.
• Fox, that from a full discussion of the subject there was every reason to augur that the abolition would be adopted.
• But if those words have any meaning, then I, an augur, demand of my colleague to know what that meaning is.
• Rabirius yielded, and would certainly have been convicted before the popular court also, had not Metellus Celer who was an augur and praetor hindered it.
• Nor was it a vain thing to watch the flight of birds across the sky, and augur this or that of their strange ways.
• They engaged in battle without consulting priest or augur.
• I presently fired again, as I thought that they might augur favourably from the report, and continued occasionally to do so until I had reached the shore.
• He wrote at a time when machinery was first beginning to be introduced, and his benevolent heart prompted him to augur from it nothing but good.
• Foremost among these must be placed that very outward prosperity which would seem at the first glance to augur for the Church a useful and prosperous career.
• Money, instead of being given to the poor, as is seemly, is laid on the table to augur wealth, and people open their purses that luck may enter.
• The tale runs that the king, to test the augur, asked him to divine whether what he was thinking of could be done.
• Augur is at the far right and Miss Alexander is sitting second from left.
• Augur lived in the Japanese style, learned Japanese and wore the kimono.
• Augur to return to Japan as soon as the first opportunity offers itself to him.
• I could not but augur ill for our chances of traversing a wider and wilder stream.
• Hail to you all! When I was sailing away from Brundisium, the augur foretold for me an unusual experience.
• The prediction of the augur at Brundisium has been strikingly fulfilled.
• It is contrasted with the usual pastoral denunciation of court and city put into the mouth of the pretended augur Mopso.
• He was by no means invariably maintained on the staff, but was hired for the occasion, which may augur the general preference for boiled and fried meats.
• Fox, that from a full discussion of the subject there was every reason to augur, that the abolition would be adopted.
• The same year died Quintus Fabius Maximus at an advanced age, if, indeed, it be true that he was augur sixty-two years, which some historians relate.
• Quintus Fabius Maximus, his son, was consecrated augur in his room.
• About the same time, Caius Claudius Pulcher, son of Appius, was chosen and inaugurated into the office of augur, in the room of Quintus Fabius Maximus, who died the year before.
• Augur will proceed to Fort Leavenworth, and will on the above-mentioned date assume command of the Department of the Missouri.
• At this time General Carr recommended to General Augur, who was in command of the Department, that Will be made chief of scouts in the Department of the Platte.
• On the whole we are inclined to believe in the good faith of the Chinese Government in adopting this measure, and to augur well for its success.
• A number of two-inch augur holes had been bored in its top and filled with jerked venison and dried berries.
• The augur muttered formula after formula, and Lentulus took pains to repeat the meaningless jargon after him.
• Presently the augur ceased his chatter and nodded to the consul.
• Now this separation of fathers from mothers, and of parents from children, does not augur well of domestic enjoyments or of a love of home.

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