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Auguries

Augury \Au"gu*ry\, n.; pl. Auguries. [L. aucurium.]

  1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

  2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.

    From their flight strange auguries she drew.
    --Drayton.

    He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness.
    --Prescott.

  3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.

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auguries

n. (plural of augury English)

Usage examples of "auguries".

Then they cast my own auguries, and from what they say, this could be the most fortunate year in my whole life.

Your auguries say this is your lucky year, so maybe we've come ashore in the right place.

He told me that he was a Priest of Belar and that the auguries had told him who I really was.

Most of the time the auguries don't show anything at all, and nothing special is going to happen during the child's life.

He'd been reading the auguries and the signs in the heavens, and he was talking about the return of the Rivan King.

And she sat with him and told of her suspicions concerning the auguries, reminding him of his own words as to the dangers of such.

She knows the auguries and omens they look for in plotting their attacks.

And between them they cast auguries and were troubled, and the aged man spake, saying, 'Behold, Warder of Riva, thine enemy hath escaped thee.

My auguries show an emperor god, mightier than any ruler in the history ofMaetica, yet fatally weak and flawed.

But most frightening of all my auguries is not the tools, nor the powers of these strangers.

The auguries predicted some old place in Normandy, probably someplace high enough to leap from.

He'll have sought auguries from the gods and will now reveal our plans for the future.

The priest would slice open the carcass, Amenstar knew, then drag out its hot guts and reador pretend to readauguries and mystic divinations for the future.

Especially with signs and auguries now pointing to an onrushing Time of Changes.

Being a bluff, commonsen-sical man, Osman had little love for the confusing auguries Verminaard constantly and eagerly placed in front of him.