What does augurous mean? A sense of foreboding dread? Is this a nice thing to wish on a newly married couple? In retrospect, my marriage had many auguries I wish I had known about…but give these kids a chance…
augur n. = Good omen
[1540-50; < L augur, der. of augere to AUGMENT with orig.
implication of " prosper "; cf. AUGUST]
augurous adj. you pick definiton.
ax
America’s attack on Irag does not augur well for future peace.
You have to use an adjective with it.
Tigerman will say:
America’s attack on Irag augurs well for future peace.
There is no adjective derived from augur.
don’t be so sure alley…
check out dictionary.reference.com/search?q=augurous
but it doen’t have a good meaning if it translates to “foreboding”.
I pick up the Latin root and use it to mean well.
ax
2 entries found for augurous.
augurous
\Au"gu*rous, a. Full of augury; foreboding. [Obs.] ``Augurous hearts.’’ --Chapman.
Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
augurous
augurous: in CancerWEB’s On-line Medical Dictionary
BTW, MW has no reference for “Augurous.”
Source: On-line Medical Dictionary, © 1997-98 Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB
Ax
Forboding=bad
And is that a ‘giraffe’ g or a ‘girls’ g? I heard Colin Powell (I think it was - I wasn’t paying attention) on CNN talking about some explosions not aujering well for something or other (or maybe it was Alan Greenspan talking about the economy).
Brian