augurate

English

Etymology 1

augur +‎ -ate

Noun

augurate (plural augurates)

1. 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

Verb

1. To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
   • 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.

Anagrams

• Gautreau

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Italian

Verb

augurate

1. second-person plural present indicative of augurare
2. second-person plural imperative of augurare
3. feminine plural of augurato

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) augurāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of augurō