verb
definition
To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events.
definition
To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue.
example
to augur well or ill
Examples of augured in a Sentence
The hegemony of Denmark was indisputable, and Gustavus regarded that power with an ever-increasing suspicion which augured ill for peace in the future.
Meanwhile, events occurring within the state augured ill for the future of the country.
This was an alliance which augured well of the Giunta for the future of the Aldines, especially as Aldo had recently found time to publish a new revised edition of Velleius Paterculus.
The sequence of major events in Scotland leading up to 2014 also augured well for a revival, she said.
His first successes against Theobald of Champagne, who for thirty years had been the most dangerous of the great French barons and had refused a vassals services to Louis VI., as well as the adroit diplomacy with which he wrested from Geoffrey the Fair, count of Anjou, a part of the Norman Vexin long claimed by the French kings, in exchange for permitting him to conquer Normandy, augured well for his boldness and activity, had he but confined them to serving his own interests.