Definition of Auguster

1. Adjective. (comparative of august) ¹

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Definition of Auguster

1. august [adj] - See also: august

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auguster

auguration
augured
augurer
augurers
augurial
auguries
auguring
augurous
augurs
augurship
augurships
augury
augustan
auguste
auguster (current term)
augustes
augustest
augustinian
augustly
augustness
augustnesses
augusts
auk
auklet
auklets
auks
aukward
aukwardly
aukwardness

Literary usage of Auguster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology by William Dean Howells (1920)
"'Yes,' says I, 'an' blow a lot of the cargo into flinders, an' damage the Mary auguster so's she couldn't never be took into port. ..."

2. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"A contemporary of Hobbes had said that 4 there's on earth a yet auguster thing. ... It is to this ' auguster thing,' not to such supreme power as English ..."

3. The Life and Speeches of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P. by George Barnett Smith (1886)
"That auguster thing is the tribunal which God has set up in the consciences of men. It is before that tribunal that I am now permitted humbly to plead, ..."

4. Howard Letters and Memories by William Tallack (1905)
"In one of his speeches he quoted the lines— " There is, on earth, a yet auguster thing, Veiled though it be, than Parliament, or King," and he added—" That ..."

5. Synonyms of the New Testament by Richard Chenevix Trench, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1906)
"82), has always that auguster sense of an unveiling by God of Himself to his creatures, to which we have given the more Latin term, revelation. ..."

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