augurate

English

Etymology 1

augur + -ate

Noun

augurate (plural augurates)

  1. The position or office of an augur.
    1865, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire:
    ...we cannot wonder that the emperor allowed him to enjoy no higher distinction than the formal dignity of the Augurate, in which he carefully makred the degrees of his esteem...

Etymology 2

Verb

augurate (third-person singular simple present augurates, present participle augurating, simple past and past participle augurated)

  1. To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
    • Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
      There are habits of misapprehension and prejudice common to every class of men; fretfulness, industrious to seek, or even feign, and brood upon matter that may nourish it; [] melancholy, augurating always for the worst; besides many more, some of which every man may find lurking in his own breast, if he will but look narrowly into it.

Anagrams


Italian

Verb

augurate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of augurare
  2. second-person plural imperative of augurare
  3. feminine plural of augurato

Latin

Verb

augurāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of augurō
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