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Auguring

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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auguring

vb. (present participle of augur English)

Usage examples of "auguring".

Some of the Masters insisted this task belonged to him because all their auguring seemed to imply that he was the only possible choice, the only one among them who might succeed.

Even if we did not hear the same reports which reach every ear in Orison, we would have our auguries-and we have learned a great deal about auguring since our efforts were united.

So softly that no one else could hear him, Master Eremis murmured to her, 'Perhaps Apt Geraden neglected to explain how auguring is done, my lady.

Sir, this being so, And seeing how the events of these last days Menace the toil of twenty anxious years, And peril all that period's patient aim, No auguring mind can doubt that deeds which root In steadiest purpose only, will effect Deliverance from a world-calamity As dark as any in the vaults of Time.

He spoke about the omen of the eagles, the two male eagles, one black as night, one with a blaze of silver, seen about the palace of Mycenae in the time before the expedition set out, seen several days in succession, haunting the walls, always on the right hand, the spear side, auguring good fortune.