| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.[Websters]
2. Being ominous, portentous, sinister or inauspicious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being prophetic, predictive, prophetical or vatic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being premonitory or cautionary. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb augurally.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (augurally) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective augural.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"AUGURAL" is a common misspelling or typo for: augurial. |
Date "AUGURAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Etymology:Augural \Au"gu*ral\, adjective. [Latin expression auguralis.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: AUGURAL
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Pertaining to an augur, or to prediction by the appearance of birds. The Romans had their augural staff and augural books. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
