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English
Etymology 1
From augur + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Noun
augurate (plural augurates)
- The position or office of an augur.
1865, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire:...we cannot wonder that the emperor allowed him to enjoy no higher distinction than the formal dignity of the Augurate, in which he carefully makred the degrees of his esteem...
Etymology 2
From augur + -ate (verb-forming suffix)
Verb
augurate (third-person singular simple present augurates, present participle augurating, simple past and past participle augurated)
- To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
- 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
- There are habits of misapprehension and prejudice common to every class of men; fretfulness, industrious to seek, or even feign, and brood upon matter that may nourish it; melancholy, augurating always for the worst; besides many more, some of which every man may find lurking in his own breast, if he will but look narrowly into it.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
augurate
- inflection of augurare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
augurate f pl
- feminine plural of augurato
Latin
Verb
augurāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of augurō
Spanish
Verb
augurate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of augurar combined with te