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  • 1augur — (n.) 1540s, from L. augur, a religious official in ancient Rome who foretold events by interpreting omens, perhaps originally meaning an increase in crops enacted in ritual, in which case it probably is from Old L. *augos (gen. *augeris) increase …

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  • 2Augur — Not to be confused with auger or agar. For other uses, see Augur (disambiguation). Augury redirects here. For the band, see Augury (band). An augur holding a lituus, the curved wand often used as a symbol of augury on Roman coins The augur… …

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  • 3augur — verb (T) 1 augur well formal to be a sign that something will be successful: His unfriendly manner did not augur well for our interview. 2 literary to be a sign that a particular thing will happen in the future …

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  • 4augur — au|gur [ˈo:gə US ˈo:gər] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: augur person who tells the future (14 21 centuries), from Latin] augur well/badly/ill formal to be a sign that something will be successful or unsuccessful = ↑bode ▪ Today s announcement of 300 …

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  • 5Augur — This unusual surname derives from the Middle English personal name Alger , which has an interesting, if complicated, derivation, since several names of different origins, both Continental Germanic (brought to England by the Normans), and Olde… …

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  • 6augur — [[t]ɔ͟ːgə(r)[/t]] augurs, auguring, augured VERB If something augurs well or badly for a person or a future situation, it is a sign that things will go well or badly. [FORMAL] [V adv for n] The renewed violence this week in Azerbaijan hardly… …

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  • 7Hezekiah Augur — (February 21, 1791 January 10, 1858) was an early American sculptor and inventor. He was a self taught sculptor and, unlike many other 19th Century sculptors did not travel to Europe, but spent his entire career in New Haven.Augur was born in New …

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  • 8Christopher C. Augur — Christopher Columbus Augur Christopher C. Augur Born July 10, 1821 …

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  • 9Calliphora augur — Taxobox name = Calliphora augur status = image width = 240px image caption = female regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Hexapoda classis = Insecta subclassis = Pterygota infraclassis = Neoptera superordo = Endopterygota| ordo =… …

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  • 10Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur — (ca. 159 BCE – 88 BCE) was a politician of the Roman Republic and an early authority on Roman law. He was first educated in law by his father (whose name he shared) and in philosophy by the stoic Panaetius of Rhodes. Scaevola was made tribune in… …

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