1. The art or practice of foretelling events by the flight or chattering of birds.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
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"
Omen Roget’s Thesaurus §512
N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice, # sign, harbinger, yule candle|, bird of ill omen, signs of the times, gathering clouds, warning, prefigurement
Adj. ill-boding
Phr. auspicium melioris aevi
No Bible verses found for "augury".