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AUGURIES |
Omens |
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PORTENTS |
Omens |
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ENORMOUS |
Our omens upset giant |
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ATHOME |
Familiar with some death omens |
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DIRE |
Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens. |
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INAUGURATE |
To begin with good omens. |
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RANDOM |
Seer and omens mostly hit and miss |
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ILL-OMENED |
Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill,
adv. |
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AUGUR |
To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to
foreshow. |
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OMENED |
Attended by, or containing, an omen or omens; as,
happy-omened day. |
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AUSPICIOUS |
Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving
promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an
auspicious beginning. |
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SUPERSTITION |
Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in
certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens,
prognostics, or the like. |
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PRODIGY |
Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of
nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors
were anciently deemed prodigies. |
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OMEN |
To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have
omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill
of an enterprise. |
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AUSPICE |
A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen
as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in
general; an indication as to the future. |
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OMINOUS |
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or
exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a
favorable and unfavor... |