What's the difference between augury and ichthyomancy?

Augury


Definition:

  • (n.) The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
  • (n.) An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.
  • (n.) A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Almost instantly after the restart Pozuelo was allowed to dance forward before unloading an effort in what proved an augury of Swansea's grandstand finish.
  • (2) Even though the remnants of his political career may depend on winning this referendum, the auguries are not good.
  • (3) But the auguries of the imminent government spending review all suggest that the cuts will fall disproportionately upon those already most economically disadvantaged.
  • (4) This had arrived as early as 28 seconds as the first augury of Brazil's soured dream.
  • (5) Or perhaps not: even their own people have acknowledged that they face disaster in next month's European and local elections , which would cap a run of electoral disasters and thus highlight grim auguries for the general election.
  • (6) Those in search of a positive augury for Moyes and United had to reach back 30 years for the last time a 2-0 deficit was overturned in Europe.
  • (7) When a right whale was harpooned to death at Deptford in 1658, it was seen as an augury of the death of the dictator Oliver Cromwell.
  • (8) The City, meanwhile, is brimming with both good cheer and grim auguries.
  • (9) Wolfsburg’s Bas Dost and Max Kruse do enough to see off PSV Eindhoven Read more The sight of Phil Jones launching a hopeful high ball to Martial that missed the Frenchman was hardly the best augury that United might be about to find an equaliser with precision football.
  • (10) This is an unhappy augury for the future dental health of Nigeria.
  • (11) If, on this most popular and painfully human question, she will give no inch, that’s a terrible augury for how she intends to conduct these negotiations, opening with a war cry to all 27 countries: we hold your people hostage.
  • (12) "The [UMP] leaders have deliberately refused to execute a judicial order ... in politics, contempt for the justice system is a pretty bad augury for the quality of leaders," said Fillon's lawyer François Sureau.

Ichthyomancy


Definition:

  • (n.) Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.

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