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augur verb. M16.
[from AUGUR noun: cf. Old & mod. French augurer from Latin augurari.]
verb trans. Usher in (or in) with auguries; inaugurate. M16.
H. Latimer Numa Pompilus, who was augured and created king [of] the Romaynes next after Romulus.
verb intrans.
a. Take auguries; conjecture from signs, have a foreboding. M16.
Sir W. Scott Not that he augur'd of the doom, Which on the living closed the tomb.
b. (With well, ill, etc.) (Of a person) anticipate, (of a thing) portend, a good or bad outcome. L18.
Wellington I augur well from this circumstance. W. H. Prescott A reverential deference, which augured well for the success of his mission. E. J. Howard Everything augured badlythey weren't meant to be together.
verb trans. Divine, forebode, anticipate; portend, give promise of. E17.
Jonson I did augur all this to him beforehand. W. Sparrow He may augur the gust is coming, but cannot prevent it. Lytton Whose open, handsome, hardy face augured a frank and fearless nature. L. Strachey The strange mixture of ingenuous light-heartedness and fixed determination..seemed to augur a future perplexed and full of dangers.
augurer noun = AUGUR noun LME.