augurial

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English

Etymology

Latin augurialis.

Adjective

augurial (comparative more augurial, superlative most augurial)

  1. Relating to augurs or to augury.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
      That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.