augurate

词形变化

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The position or office of an augur.

v.
  1. 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.

词源

From Latin augurātus (“augurate”). By surface analysis, augur + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

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