augurate
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
augurate (plural augurates)
- The position or office of an augur.
- 1865, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire[1]:
- ...we cannot wonder that the emperor allowed him to enjoy no higher distinction than the formal dignity of the Augurate, in which he carefully makred the degrees of his esteem...
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
augurate (third-person singular simple present augurates, present participle augurating, simple past and past participle augurated)
- To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
- 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
- There are habits of misapprehension and prejudice common to every class of men; fretfulness, industrious to seek, or even feign, and brood upon matter that may nourish it; […] melancholy, augurating always for the worst; besides many more, some of which every man may find lurking in his own breast, if he will but look narrowly into it.
- 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
augurate
- inflection of augurare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
augurate f pl
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
augurāte
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
augurate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of augurar combined with te