a. [ad. L. augurālis, f. augur: see AUGUR sb. and -AL 1.]

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  1.  Of or pertaining to augurs or augury.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, IX. i. 51. Wyth wordis augurall … Onto the flude anone furth steppis he.

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1598.  Greenwey, Tacitus’ Ann., II. iii. Going out the Augurall gate.

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1683.  Cave, Ecclesiastici, 193. The augural Portent of the flight of Birds.

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1770.  Langhorne, Plutarch (1879), I. 167/2. They discovered … the augural staff of Romulus.

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1850.  Leitch, Müller’s Anc. Art, § 169. The consecrated enclosure for the observation of auspices,—the augural templum.

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  2.  Significant of the future; betokening either good or ill; lucky or ominous.

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1600.  Holland, Livy, VII. xxvi. 266. The God … that sent unto him from above that augurall foule [præpetem].

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1677.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 65. Aristotle saith that sternutation was an augural signe.

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1863.  Browning, Sordello, V. Wks. III. 408. Moody music augural of woe.

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