Pertaining to an augur, or to prediction by the appearance of birds. The Romans had their augural staff and augural books.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.
Prediction Roget’s Thesaurus §511
N. prediction, announcement, program, programme, premonition, prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration|, augury, auguration|, ariolation|, hariolation|, foreboding, aboding, bodement, abodement, omniation|, omniousness, auspices, forecast, omen, horoscope, nativity, sooth, soothsaying, fortune telling, crystal gazing, divination, necromancy, astrology, horoscopy, judicial astrology1, adytum, prefiguration, prefigurement, prototype, type, oracle
V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, advise, forewarn, presage, augur, bode, abode, forebode, foretoken, betoken, prefigure, preshow, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to, usher in, herald, premise, announce, lower, hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope, bid fair, promise, lead one to expect, be the precursor, extrapolate, project
Adj. predicting, predictive, prophetic, fatidic, fatidical, vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, haruspical, sibylline, weatherwise, ominous, portentous, augurous, augurial, augural, auspicial, auspicious, prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of
Phr. "coming events cast their shadows before", dicamus bona verba, "there buds the promise of celestial worth"
No Bible verses found for "augural".