Definitions for auguries

auguries au·gu·ry

Spelling: [aw-gyuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈɔ gyə ri/

Auguries is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in auguries (aegirsuu).

Definitions for auguries

noun

  1. the art or practice of an augur; divination.
  2. the rite or ceremony of an augur.
  3. an omen, token, or indication.

Origin of auguries

1325-75; Middle English Latin augurium soothsaying, equivalent to augur augur1 + -ium -ium

Examples for auguries

This was the augury the priestess drew, and wondered greatly at the sign.

I was always superstitious, and this augury, just at that moment, affected me.

If the augury was propitious the work was entered upon with vigor and confidence.

augury had promised it to him; my mother knew this, and shared his ambition.

I hoped the augury was a true one, but there were times when I doubted.

This visit of the kind Samoset was an augury of good to the colony.

They knew not that it was an augury of the fateful tragedy at the gates of Spain.

If the scales were evenly balanced the augury would be good.

When he ended Vieux Carré with the stage direction, “The house is empty now,” Lahr somberly terms it “an augury and an epitaph.”

The words had come to her as the interpretation of an augury, the fulfilment of a promise.

Word Value for auguries
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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