Meaning & use
Augural
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Relating to augury or omens; predicting or foreshadowing future events.
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The old sailors treated the strange cloud formation as an augural sign of the coming storm.
Her augural remarks about the company's decline proved eerily accurate within a year.
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"Augural" derives from the Roman augurs, priests who interpreted omens, especially the flight of birds, to guide public decisions.
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