augural
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| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: auspex (in ancient Rome) a religious official who observed and interpreted omens and signs to help guide the making of public decisions |
| 2. | any prophet or soothsayer |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to predict (some future event), as from signs or omens |
| 4. | (tr; may take a clause as object) to be an omen (of); presage |
| 5. | (intr) to foreshadow future events to be as specified; bode: this augurs well for us |
| [C14: from Latin: a diviner, perhaps from augēre to increase] | |
| augural | |
| —adj | |
| 'augurship | |
| —n | |
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| augury (ˈɔːɡjʊrɪ) | |
| —n , pl -ries | |
| 1. | the art of or a rite conducted by an augur |
| 2. | a sign or portent; omen |
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augury
late 14c., "divination from the flight of birds," from O.Fr. augure "divination, soothsaying, sorcery, enchantment," from L. augurium (see augur). Fig. sense of "presage, omen, portent, indication" is from 1797 (also often in pl. as auguries).
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