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augurial

augurial adjective: relating to augurs or to augury.

Adjective

augurial (comparative more augurial, superlative most augurial)

  1. 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

Forms of augurial

comparativemore augurial
superlativemost augurial

Origin of augurial

Latin augurialis.

Questions about augurial

What does augurial mean?
Augurial means relating to augurs or to augury.
What part of speech is augurial?
Augurial is an adjective.

Words near augurial in the dictionary

  1. augure
  2. augured
  3. augurer
  4. augurers
  5. augureth
  6. augurial
  7. auguries
  8. auguring
  9. augurious
  10. augurise
  11. augurised

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