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augur well — ● augur … Useful english dictionary
augur well — index promise (raise expectations) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
augur well — have good prospects; bode well; be hopeful, be promising … English contemporary dictionary
augur well/badly/ill — portend a good or bad outcome. → augur … English new terms dictionary
augur — [ô′gər] n. [L, orig., a priest at rituals of fertility and increase, prob. < OL * augos (gen. * augeris), increase, growth < augere (see WAX2); meaning infl. by auspex, AUSPEX] 1. in ancient Rome, any of a body of officials who interpreted… … English World dictionary
Augur — Au gur, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Augured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Auguring}.] 1. To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow. [1913 Webster] My auguring mind assures the same success. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To anticipate, to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
augur — auger, augur Auger is an Old English word for a tool for boring holes. Augur, from the Latin word for soothsayer, is used occasionally to mean a prophet, but is more usual as a verb in the expressions augur well and augur ill, meaning ‘to portend … Modern English usage
augur — au|gur [ˈo:gə US ˈo:gər] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: augur person who tells the future (14 21 centuries), from Latin] augur well/badly/ill formal to be a sign that something will be successful or unsuccessful = ↑bode ▪ Today s announcement of 300 … Dictionary of contemporary English
augur — [ ɔ:gə] verb (augur well/badly/ill) portend a good or bad outcome. noun (in ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted natural signs so as to determine divine approval or disapproval of a proposed action. Derivatives augural ɔ:gjʊr(ə)l… … English new terms dictionary
augur — verb (T) 1 augur well formal to be a sign that something will be successful: His unfriendly manner did not augur well for our interview. 2 literary to be a sign that a particular thing will happen in the future … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
