augurial

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.