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    [Noun]  | "au*gu*ry" | \ ˈȯ-gyə-rē \


    1: divination from auspices or omens; also : an instance of this

    2: omen, portent


    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English augurie, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French augorrye, augurrie, borrowed from Latin augurium "divination by an augur, art of divination, omen, portent," from augur {see: |augur:1|augur:1} + -ium, suffix of function or state;

    [Noun]  | "augury" 


    1: a declaration that something will happen in the future;


      * e.g., " ... a yearbook augury that of all the graduates, he would be the most likely to succeed "



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    2: something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event;


      * e.g., " ... some people believe that a broken mirror is an augury of seven years' bad luck "



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    3: the art or practice of foretelling future events by interpreting omens;


      * e.g., " ... the gift of augury that Nostradamus purportedly possessed "



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     [ "The Augury" ]

    1: A British warship that was only famous because it was attacked by the pineapple pirates; a group of deranged individuals who were after pineapples that harvested goods. Unfortunately no such pineapples existed.

      * e.g.,  ... "Hey look, it is the pineapple pirates, they have come to take our fruits!" -- Captain of The Augury 

     [ "auguri" ]

    1: happy birthday in italian!

      * e.g.,  ... auguri 

     [ "auguried" ]

    1: investigated and observed the ongoing movements and flows and realising that something is going to happen

      * e.g.,  ... Loitering through the cyber alleys while sifting and decoding the many graffiti creations, he auguried the beginnings of the programmatic art forms - visual representations that are liberated through the shifting of binaries rather than paint 

     [ "Augury Rock" ]

    1: An outpost in the desert in the MMRPG Guild Wars. There you will most likely find a necromancer sitting in front of where you go to be ascended. He doesn't share his seat but he is rather nice.

      * e.g.,  ... "Want to go to Augury Rock to go Queen Farming?" 

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