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Augured

Augur \Au"gur\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Augured; p. pr. & vb. n. Auguring.]

  1. To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

    My auguring mind assures the same success.
    --Dryden.

  2. To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

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augured

vb. (en-past of: augur)

Usage examples of "augured".

Donna Ignazia was in such a state of ecstasy that I felt her trembling, and augured well for my amorous projects.

I saw the face of the fair shopwoman light up, and I augured well for my success, though I could not expect to do much while the honeymoon lasted.

I thought her behaviour augured well, and I hoped she would not make me languish long.

As I passed them under review in my lordly manner, I noticed that one of them still looked fresh and pretty, which augured well for her daughter, though the fruit does not always correspond to the tree.

And if she's an Imager secretly-if she's the augured champion of Mordant's need-then you're wrong to risk angering her against us.

If the child's potential was properly developed, and the strength inherent in its manifestation augured well, Altair would attract the best sort of colonist, hoping that something in the atmosphere of the planet nurtured Talent.

That two of the infants seemed to have Talented minds augured well tor any children he might give Earia.

Seven eggs already lay beside the important golden one, and if there were seven already, this augured well for the eventual total.

Their appearance augured a good, quick voyage, and Sharra felt the shadows that had fallen over the hold lift.

And Geraden wanted these men to take her seriously as an answer to their problem, an augured saviour?

The balloon was slightly in the rear of Gallia, a circumstance that augured somewhat favorably, because it might be presumed that if the comet preceded the balloon in its contact with the earth, there would be a break in the suddenness of transfer from one atmosphere to the other.

It was his adventure, planned and dreamt of and augured for half a year, and Aglaca would be .

Emptying the bucket and taking up a light, oaken bowl instead, she had raced from her cave toward the permanent frost of arid Berkanth to try to catch another ice-augured vision and find the violet-eyed helper.

Like most other things about Shota, Richard didn't entirely trust the smile as significant, much less sincere, and so he couldn't be sure that it augured well.

He was depressed, also, over the series of misfortunes that had befallen the squadron since leaving Scapa: it augured ill for the future, and he had no illusions as to what lay ahead for the crippled squadron.