(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.
Diviner
Definition:
(n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.
(n.) A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
(2) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
(3) Back then they claimed a divine right to rule over Afghanistan.
(4) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
(5) As Labour has no real polices that I can divine, the idea of making it less testosterone-driven somehow interested me.
(6) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
(7) Baum (a surgeon), Bass (a psychiatrist), Whitehorn (a journalist), and Campbell (a professor of divinity) comment on the case as presented and on three hypothetical complicating situations involving the girl's request for plastic surgery to please her abusive father, the possibility of pregnancy, and physical injury from sexual assault.
(8) It's almost like a divinely inspired Hemingway writing in those parts.
(9) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
(10) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
(11) "But North Korea is not moving towards a collective system: it's all about the one leader … It's the divine right of Kims."
(12) A poor citizen can’t even find one kilogramme of rice on the street,” he said, arguing that the country’s rulers would face divine judgment for what they were doing to the poor.
(13) Everyone knew that if he'd wanted to he could have become professor of divinity at St Andrews, but academia was too dry for him.
(14) On 15 September, business leaders from Bridgeport, Connecticut – a down-at-heel port town on Long Island Sound - gathered just outside town in the Friendship Baptist Church to pray for divine intervention in a matter of business.
(15) So soon afterwards, here was their new leader telling them they had made a cataclysmic error: far from divine, Stalin was satanic.
(16) After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
(17) Fuelled by latent ambition (and maybe a bit of that coke), Joan – with the help of some divine Cosgrovian intervention – decided she could turn her hand to producing ads.
(18) I'd get it from a shop called Hanna in Beirut – just divine.
(19) There might be tales of divine intervention (Newton believed doomsday would be in the 21st century, calculated from clues in the Bible), or the idea that a bloody war would end up causing so many casualties that nations would suffer and wither away.
(20) Its method permits access to the subjective, individual aspects of the development of belief and of the relationship to the divinity, as well as to the critical moments of their developmental reorganization.