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Definition of Augured
1. augur [v] - See also: augur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Augured
Literary usage of Augured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"... by corporate bodies, associations, and individual characters of eminence, to
shake the arbitrary system that augured evils to both countries. ..."
2. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"fluenced or led ; yet many persons considered his tenure of Office as by no means
precarious, and augured well of its duration. ..."
3. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1864)
"... which had borne the brunt of more than a thousand years, was shivered, and
augured. It was believed, that the people would be il-11 to pieces. ..."
4. The History of England, from the Earliest Period, to the Close of the Year by John Bigland (1813)
"... have been directed ; but a change is already effected in the aspect of Europe,
from which may be augured the establishment of a new order of things. ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1853)
"... and Heine. from tbe wearisome pine forests, augured badly for the safety of
my Outburst the Hinging mania again, end every man roared at the top of his ..."
6. Reminiscences of fifty years by Mark Boyd (1871)
"For myself I never saw anything that even augured a tendency to the latter.
Be that as it may, I was delighted to see ' the Maclean' inside the stage coach ..."
7. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1885)
"Pop. of village (1861) 823, (1871) 811, (1881) 964. redemption in a speculation
from which all had augured happiness.' Yet was the Ellisland life a fruitful ..."
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