Obs. [f. AUGUR + -ISM.] Augury.
1590. Lodge, Euphues Gold. Leg., in Halliw., Shaks., VI. 41. If augurisme be authenticall … it cannot bee but such a shadow portends the issue of a substance.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 68. Then did the Priest divide the intrails, that so he might make his augurism.
1658. Wom. Never Vexed, III. i. in Hazl., Dodsl., XII. 143. There shall no augurism fright my plain dealing.
