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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to an augur, or to the duties or profession of an augur; of or pertaining to divination; ominous: as, “portents augural,” Cowper.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant

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  • adjective prophetic

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Examples

  • He not only looked ridiculous in his augural outfit but plainly was embarrassed.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Pompey was beside him, absurd in his augural cap and carrying a divining wand.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Congrats on having some posts in the augural edition, Cath!

    Praxis: new blog carnival Cath@VWXYNot? 2008

  • The augural ceremony will held at 1p. m and Barrister Dr. Shahida Jameel will be chief guest of the function.

    According to the notification of the Education Department Punjab, all 2007

  • This in augural lecture was given at 5.30 pm on Wednesday 11th January at the WolfsonLecture Theatre, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, QueenSquare, London.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • It is the head of this bird which is represented in the hieroglyphic figures upon the augural staff; at least so it appeared to me whenever I saw the bird displaying its crest.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Caius Cornelius, who had the character of a good augur, the fellow-citizen and acquaintance of Livy, the historian, happened to be making some augural observations that very day when the battle was fought.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • "I could enjoin you from augural duties, but you'd still be an augur, Patera Calde."

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • Lightning four times on the right, and an owl inside the augural place screeching as if being murdered.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • He brought in also the augural science of his country, which had been only partially known before.

    The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

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