What is "augural"

Usage examples of "augural".

They were the more anxious to do this as a report had got abroad that the augurs had received instructions to repair to Lake Regillus and set apart with the usual augural formalities a spot where business could be transacted by a properly constituted Assembly.

Here it was that whilst the Capitol was being cleared with augural rites, Juventas and Terminus, to the great delight of your fathers, would not allow themselves to be moved.

A thin, cold spray preceded the murderous wave: disjointed augural images splashing across the surface of my mind.

Previsiblemente respondió que ya lo había hecho: esos conceptos, y otros no menos novedosos, figuraban en el Canto Augural, Canto Prologal o simplemente Canto-Prólogo de un poema en el que trabajaba hacía muchos años, sin réclame, sin bullanga ensordecedora, siempre apoyado en esos dos báculos que se llaman el trabajo y la soledad.

But I wish, that as I have gain'd the Augural, and Consular Dignity, in an Age far greener than he, so in my declining Years, I may in some Measure be Master of his Capacity.

It was a strange, cold, augural feeling that left a hollowness within her.