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Webster 1913 Edition
Augurate
Au′gu-rate
,Verb.
T.
& I.
[L.
auguratus
, p. p. of augurari
to augur.] To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
[Obs.]
C. Middleton.
Au′gu-rate
,Noun.
The office of an augur.
Merivale.
Webster 1828 Edition
Augurate
AU'GURATE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
augurate
augurate
English
Noun
augurate (plural augurates)
- The position or office of an augur.
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Verb
augurate (third-person singular simple present augurates, present participle augurating, simple past and past participle augurated)
- To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
- Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
- There are habits of misapprehension and prejudice common to every class of men; fretfulness, industrious to seek, or even feign, and brood upon matter that may nourish it; […] melancholy, augurating always for the worst; besides many more, some of which every man may find lurking in his own breast, if he will but look narrowly into it.
- Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued