Meanings
comparative more augurial · superlative most augurial
- Relating to augurs or to augury.
That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23
Origin
- Latinaugurialis
- Englishaugurial
Latin augurialis.
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