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Definitions of augury in various dictionaries:
noun - an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
The art, ability, or practice of auguring; divination.
A sign of something coming; an omen.
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| Like the Romans, if you're interpreting the behavior of sacred animals, you're practicing this divination |
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| a sign of what will happen in the future an omen. |
| an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come |
| A sign of what will happen in the future an omen. |
| The art, ability, or practice of auguring divination. |
| A sign of something coming an omen: "The chartist buys when the auguries look favorable and sells on bad omens ( Burton G. Malkiel). |
| a sign of what might happen in the future: |
| the skill of knowing what will happen in the future: |
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| Augury is the practice from ancient Roman religion of interpreting omens from the observed flight of birds (aves). When the individual, known as the augur, interpreted these signs, it is referred to as "taking the auspices". 'Auspices' is from the Latin auspicium and auspex, literally "one who looks at birds." Depending upon the birds, the auspices from the gods could be favorable or unfavorable (auspicious or inauspicious). Sometimes bribed or politically motivated augures would fabricate unfavorable auspices in order to delay certain state functions, such as elections. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes, the generic model of a seer in the Greco-Roman literary culture.This type of omen reading was already a millennium old in the time of Classical Greece: in the fourteenth-century BC diplomatic correspondence preserved in Egypt called the "Amarna correspondence", the practice was familiar to the king of Alasia in Cyprus who needed an ' |