augurship
augurship noun: the office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome.
Noun
augurship (plural augurships)
- The office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome.
- The augurship would have bought him. “So pitiful,” says the biographer, “was the bribe to which he would have sacrificed his honor, his opinions, and the commonwealth!”1880, Anthony Trollope, Life of Cicero, 2004, Kessinger Publishing, page 5
- What I am expecting to hear from you is, what Arrius says, and how he endures being left in the lurch, and who are intended to be consuls—is it Pompey and Crassus, or, as I am told in a letter, Servius Sulpicius with Gabinius?—and whether there are any new laws or anything new at all; and, since...1900, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Evelyn Shuckburgh (translator), Letters to Atticus, 2.5 (XXXI): To Atticus at Rome, Tusculum, April 59 BC
Forms of augurship
| plural | augurships |
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Origin of augurship
From augur + -ship.
Questions about augurship
- What does augurship mean?
- Augurship means the office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome.
- What part of speech is augurship?
- Augurship is a noun.
- What is the plural of augurship?
- The plural of augurship is augurships.
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