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名詞

augurate (plural augurates)

1. 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...

語源 2

From Latin augurātus, perfect passive participle of augurō (“to predict, foretell”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, augur +‎ -ate.

動詞

augurate (third-person singular simple present augurates, present participle augurating, simple past and past participle augurated)

1. 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.

アナグラム

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