資料來源 : pyDict
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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Augury \Au"gu*ry\, n.; pl. {Auguries}. [L. aucurium.]
1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the
actions of birds, etc.; divination.
2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the
future; presage.
From their flight strange auguries she drew.
--Drayton.
He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave
little augury of his future greatness. --Prescott.
3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
資料來源 : WordNet®
augury
n : an event that is experienced as indicating important things
to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from
God" [syn: {sign}, {foretoken}, {preindication}]