a. rare. [f. AUGUR + -OUS.] Presaging, foreboding, full of forebodings.
1600. Chapman, Iliads, XVIII. 191. Presaging in their augurous hearts the labours that they mourn’d A little after.
1848. Conington, Æschylus’ Agamem., 109. Wherefore is this constant fear … Still before my augurous bosom flitting?
