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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Augury \Au"gu*ry\, noun; pl. {Auguries}. [L. aucurium.]
1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.
From their flight strange auguries she drew. --Drayton.
He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. --Prescott.
3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
augury
noun: an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" [syn: {sign}, {foretoken}, {preindication}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "augury": adumbration, anticipation, astrology, auspice, betokening, betokenment, boding, clairvoyance, crystal ball, crystal gazing, divination, divining, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, fortunetelling, haruspication, haruspicy, horoscopy, indicant, indication, mantic, mantology, omen, palm-reading, palmistry, portent, prefiguration, preindication, premonition, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presentiment, presignifying, prognostic, prognostication, promise, pythonism, shadow, sign, soothsay, sorcery, token, tokening, type
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