[ad. L. augurātus, f. augurāt- ppl. stem of augurāri to predict from omens, f. augur: see prec. and -ATE1.] The office of augur; the augurship.

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1741.  Middleton, Cicero, I. v. (1742), 331. Tell me … since Nepos is leaving Rome, who is to haue his brother’s Augurate.

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1859.  Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), VI. xlix. 108. The formal dignity of the Augurate.

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