(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.
Portend
Definition:
(v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.
(v. t.) To stretch out before.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that CSR is a relatively common breathing pattern in patients who required MVS because of cardiogenic PE and does not portend a poor immediate prognosis in this population.
(2) The initial encouraging results with PSCT so far portend a major therapeutic role of this modality in the approach to hematologic and oncologic diseases.
(3) When the low-back pain is disabling and surgery becomes necessary, failure to obtain a fusion portends a poor clinical result.
(4) This portends a gloomy scenario for the poorer populations of Europe in the 1990s.
(5) However, recent changes in societal perceptions about environmental risks, corporate health care practices, and medical reimbursement patterns favoring provision by hospitals of contractual outpatient services to healthy workers all portend expanded involvement of residents in certain occupational medicine activities in the future, in response to economic pressures on both consumers and providers.
(6) Collapse, although infrequent, still portends a grave prognosis (61% of cases of collapse led to death at Charles Foix Hospital).
(7) We conclude that: (1) thalamic involvement portends a poor prognosis both in terms of histology and survival, (2) beneficial effects of RT are difficult to demonstrate and (3) therapy for pediatric diencephalic gliomas should be individualized and long-term spontaneous remissions may occur.
(8) As with "dedifferentiated" chondrosarcomas and liposarcomas, "dedifferentiation" in a chordoma usually portends an accelerated clinical course.
(9) Time will tell whether elevated levels of bioactive beta-hCG portend neoplastic potential.
(10) Read more “It’s an early warning sign and I think it just portends a massive wind of change in the future.” Studies have shown that higher rates of unemployment are linked to less volunteerism and higher crime .
(11) Stage I cutaneous malignant melanomas between 0.76 and 1.69 mm thick (Breslow measurement) in BANS (upper part of the back, posterior aspects of the arms, posterior and lateral aspects of the neck, posterior aspect of the scalp) areas have been reported to portend a relatively poor prognosis compared to non-BANS sites.
(12) Massive cecal dilatation often dominates the radiographic presentation and may portend perforation.
(13) A bilateral sixth nerve palsy portends serious disease of the central nervous system and precipitates extensive patient studies.
(14) Although previous chemical modification studies had implicated these residues as ligands, the earlier results did not portend the new finding that of all the conserved cysteines only these 2 residues are required for a second function of the Fe-protein.
(15) Computed tomography portends an even greater diagnostic sensitivity.
(16) An injury at work affects the professional athlete more than his nonathlete counterpart because it may portend the end of his playing career.
(17) The BBC will feel vulnerable on all three fronts unless and until the right person is securely in place, and history does not portend well to their being chosen with care.
(18) Accordingly, while the results, unlike those of others, do not portend a future for this form of serodiagnosis in the management of tuberculosis, they offer intriguing hints as to the basis of the variable immunogenicity and pathogenicity of strains of M. tuberculosis.
(19) Occlusion of the common and internal carotid arteries in a patient with symptomatic severe cerebral ischemia, with or without contralateral carotid disease, portends a poor prognosis.
(20) These conditions often manifest as profound shock upon hospital presentation and portend a grim prognosis.