augury
English
Etymology
augur + -y, or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French augurie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin augurium.
Pronunciation
Noun
augury (countable and uncountable, plural auguries)
- A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
- (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
- Edgar Allan Poe
- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- Edgar Allan Poe
- An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
- 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled![1]:
- Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:augury.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:omen
Hyponyms
- ailuromancy, felidomancy (cats)
- alectryomancy (chickens)
- arachnomancy (spiders)
- auspice (birds)
- entomomancy (insects)
- hippomancy (horses)
- ichthyomancy (fish)
- myomancy (mice)
- myrmomancy (ants)
- ophiomancy (snakes)
- zoomancy (any animal)
Related terms
Translations
divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals
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an omen or prediction; a foreboding
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