augurate
English
Noun
augurate (plural augurates)
- The position or office of an augur.
- 1865, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire:
- ...we cannot wonder that the emperor allowed him to enjoy no higher distinction than the formal dignity of the Augurate, in which he carefully makred the degrees of his esteem...
Verb
augurate (third-person singular simple present augurates, present participle augurating, simple past and past participle augurated)
- To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
- 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
- There are habits of misapprehension and prejudice common to every class of men; fretfulness, industrious to seek, or even feign, and brood upon matter that may nourish it; […] melancholy, augurating always for the worst; besides many more, some of which every man may find lurking in his own breast, if he will but look narrowly into it.
- 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
augurate
- inflection of augurare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
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