noun. One of a group of ancient Roman religious officials who foretold events by observing and interpreting signs and omens.

noun. A seer or prophet; a soothsayer.

intransitive verb. To predict, especially from signs or omens; foretell. synonym: foretell.

intransitive verb. To serve as an omen of; betoken.

intransitive verb. To make predictions from signs or omens.

intransitive verb. To be a sign or omen.

To prognosticate from signs, omens, or indications; predict; anticipate: with a personal subject.

To betoken; forebode: with a non-personal or impersonal subject.

Synonyms To portend, presage, foreshadow, be ominous of.

To conjecture from signs or omens.

To be a sign; bode: with well or ill.

noun. Among the ancient Romans, a functionary whose duty it was to observe and to interpret, according to traditional rules, the auspices, or reputed natural signs concerning future events.

noun. Hence One who pretends to foretell future events by omens; a soothsayer; a prophet; one who bodes, forebodes, or portends.

intransitive verb. To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

intransitive verb. To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue.

transitive verb. To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.

noun. An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

noun. One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.

noun. A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other animals, or by signs derived from celestial phenomena, or unusual occurrences.

noun. An official who interpreted omens before the start of public events.

verb. To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events.

verb. predict from an omen

noun. (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy

verb. indicate by signs

"Sura xxvii. 48; vii. 128, where, as in this passage, the word augur refers to the mode of divination practised previous to Islam, by the flight of birds."

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