The Collaborative International Dictionary
Augurship \Au"gur*ship\, n.
The office, or period of office, of an augur.
--Bacon.
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) The office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome.
Usage examples of "augurship".
It was also noted that Sulla had given himself a priesthood to complement the augurship he held already-and that he was the only man to hold both.
I am going to move in the Plebs that all future candidates for an augurship should be required to strip naked and parade up and down the Forum.
Curio as tribune of the plebs, hurrying from Gaul, sent ahead and registered as a candidate for the vacant augurship of Quintus Hortensius.
Dalmaticus Pontifex Maximus, thought this was a splendid way out of the Ahenobarbus dilemma, particularly because old Ahenobarbus had secured an augurship for his younger son, Lucius, not long before he died.
The squabbles over the augurship may not have attained the height of those frightful altercations heard from the house of Celer before he died, but they enlivened the Forum mightily.
Rank dictated the positions of some, like those holding magistracies, priesthoods, augurships, but the bulk of the senators were at liberty to distribute themselves among cronies and settle to partake of viands the bottomless purse of Young Marius had provided.
According to tradition, the new priest would belong to the same family as the dead priest, thus enabling priesthoods and augurships to pass from father to son, or uncle to nephew, or cousin to cousin.
According to tradition, the new priest would belong to the same family as the dead priest, thus enabling priesthoods and augurships to pass from father to son, or uncle to nephew, or cousin to cousin.