(n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.
(n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.
(v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
(v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.
(v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of these augur well for further progress in oncology.
(2) Chris Williamson, Markit's chief economist, said: "The rate of decline accelerated towards the end of quarter in terms of both output and new orders – so that doesn't augur well for July and further months."
(3) Sánchez and Özil demonstrated their class with exquisite interplay before the German crossed for Campbell, who finished emphatically before being engulfed by team-mates delighted both for the player and for a victory that augurs well for the club.
(4) But suggestions at lunchtime from Iain Duncan-Smith, an influential figure on the right of the Tory party, that the Conservatives are not interested in electoral reform for the Commons does not augur well for a deal between the Tories and the Lib Dems.
(5) The present report from the Central Asian part of the USSR in the wake of Glasnost augurs well for the surveillance of plague worldwide as for a period of over fifty years the occurrence of cases in man in this country had been denied.
(6) The fact that England will not have a specialist striker due to the monumentally silly suspension incurred by Frazier Campbell doesn't augur well either, and Gabby Agbonlahor and Joe Hart's omission aren't very encouraging either.
(7) In words that could augur further trouble ahead for Gove, Stacey wrote: "The timetable for qualifications development that you have set out is challenging.
(8) The high rate of superficial venous thrombosis and complementary acts on the residual varicose veins, only one year after the primitive surgery, don't augur well of the future.
(9) In the group C. krusei a linkage between the maximum temperature and the utilisation of a sugar has been established, auguring a more close relation between the thermic characteristic and the enzymologic equipment of a yeast.
(10) There were other examples of non-disclosure of tardy maintenance systems that just don't augur well for a good relationship.” While not directly responding to O'Brien's allegations about its disclosures relating to the spill, a spokesman from ERA told Guardian Australia the company was undertaking “progressive rehabilitation” at Ranger, including backfilling an opencut mine with 27m tonnes of material.
(11) This does not augur well for the future of the world’s reefs under climate change.
(12) "It doesn't augur well for an early and peaceful settlement of the nuclear dispute," said Mark Fitzpatrick at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
(13) Blunt trauma and massive injuries to the soft tissue, bones, and joints of the extremities augur amputation.
(14) The CPS did not prosecute the police officer named by Augur because, according to IPCC commissioner Nicholas Long , "the investigation could not identify conclusively the officer concerned".
(15) Fires can look worse than they are but the spread of flames right across the top does not augur well at all.
(16) The expanding epidemic of HIV infection in reproductive-age women, the availability of antiretroviral therapy for children, and recommendations for increased case identification activities augur a time when more and more pediatricians are going to be called on to care for HIV-exposed infants.
(17) US growth is good for the world and augurs well for continued improvement in US earnings as we head into the fourth quarter.” Anna Stupnytska, global economist at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, said the Fed would be in no hurry to raise borrowing costs in the absence of inflationary or wage pressures.
(18) The two tracks are inevitable in Syria.” The spirit of his comments was familiar, but the defiant tone does not augur well for the implementation of the fragile and tentative agreement drawn up by the International Syria Support Group, comprising the US, Russia, Britain, Iran, Saudi Arabia and others – some of Assad’s staunchest backers and most determined enemies.
(19) Diagnostic features are described as a series of couplets that enable separation of the third instar larvae of the following pairs of closely related forms of blowflies of medical and veterinary importance: Chrysomya chloropyga (Wiedemann) and Ch.putoria (Wiedemann), Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann) and Ch.rufifacies (Macquart), Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel) and Co.macellaria (Fabricius), Lucilia sericata (Mergen) and L. cuprina (Wiedemann), Calliphora augur (Fabricius) and C. stygia (Fabricius).
(20) Len McCluskey, assistant general secretary of Unite, which represents most of BA cabin crew, said the results augured well for a peace deal.
Augurer
Definition:
(n.) An augur.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of these augur well for further progress in oncology.
(2) Chris Williamson, Markit's chief economist, said: "The rate of decline accelerated towards the end of quarter in terms of both output and new orders – so that doesn't augur well for July and further months."
(3) Sánchez and Özil demonstrated their class with exquisite interplay before the German crossed for Campbell, who finished emphatically before being engulfed by team-mates delighted both for the player and for a victory that augurs well for the club.
(4) But suggestions at lunchtime from Iain Duncan-Smith, an influential figure on the right of the Tory party, that the Conservatives are not interested in electoral reform for the Commons does not augur well for a deal between the Tories and the Lib Dems.
(5) The present report from the Central Asian part of the USSR in the wake of Glasnost augurs well for the surveillance of plague worldwide as for a period of over fifty years the occurrence of cases in man in this country had been denied.
(6) The fact that England will not have a specialist striker due to the monumentally silly suspension incurred by Frazier Campbell doesn't augur well either, and Gabby Agbonlahor and Joe Hart's omission aren't very encouraging either.
(7) In words that could augur further trouble ahead for Gove, Stacey wrote: "The timetable for qualifications development that you have set out is challenging.
(8) The high rate of superficial venous thrombosis and complementary acts on the residual varicose veins, only one year after the primitive surgery, don't augur well of the future.
(9) In the group C. krusei a linkage between the maximum temperature and the utilisation of a sugar has been established, auguring a more close relation between the thermic characteristic and the enzymologic equipment of a yeast.
(10) There were other examples of non-disclosure of tardy maintenance systems that just don't augur well for a good relationship.” While not directly responding to O'Brien's allegations about its disclosures relating to the spill, a spokesman from ERA told Guardian Australia the company was undertaking “progressive rehabilitation” at Ranger, including backfilling an opencut mine with 27m tonnes of material.
(11) This does not augur well for the future of the world’s reefs under climate change.
(12) "It doesn't augur well for an early and peaceful settlement of the nuclear dispute," said Mark Fitzpatrick at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
(13) Blunt trauma and massive injuries to the soft tissue, bones, and joints of the extremities augur amputation.
(14) The CPS did not prosecute the police officer named by Augur because, according to IPCC commissioner Nicholas Long , "the investigation could not identify conclusively the officer concerned".
(15) Fires can look worse than they are but the spread of flames right across the top does not augur well at all.
(16) The expanding epidemic of HIV infection in reproductive-age women, the availability of antiretroviral therapy for children, and recommendations for increased case identification activities augur a time when more and more pediatricians are going to be called on to care for HIV-exposed infants.
(17) US growth is good for the world and augurs well for continued improvement in US earnings as we head into the fourth quarter.” Anna Stupnytska, global economist at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, said the Fed would be in no hurry to raise borrowing costs in the absence of inflationary or wage pressures.
(18) The two tracks are inevitable in Syria.” The spirit of his comments was familiar, but the defiant tone does not augur well for the implementation of the fragile and tentative agreement drawn up by the International Syria Support Group, comprising the US, Russia, Britain, Iran, Saudi Arabia and others – some of Assad’s staunchest backers and most determined enemies.
(19) Diagnostic features are described as a series of couplets that enable separation of the third instar larvae of the following pairs of closely related forms of blowflies of medical and veterinary importance: Chrysomya chloropyga (Wiedemann) and Ch.putoria (Wiedemann), Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann) and Ch.rufifacies (Macquart), Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel) and Co.macellaria (Fabricius), Lucilia sericata (Mergen) and L. cuprina (Wiedemann), Calliphora augur (Fabricius) and C. stygia (Fabricius).
(20) Len McCluskey, assistant general secretary of Unite, which represents most of BA cabin crew, said the results augured well for a peace deal.