Verb:

भविष्य बतलाना, शकुन विचारना,

augur's Usage Examples:

As the augur looked south he had the east, the lucky quarter, on his left, and therefore signs on the left side were considered favourable, those on the right unfavourable.

At midnight, when the sky was clear and there was an absence of wind, the augur, in the presence of a magistrate, took up his position on a hill which afforded a wide view.

It was the duty of the augur, before the auspices properly so called (those from the sky and from birds) were taken, to mark out with his staff the templum or consecrated space within which his observations were intended to be made.

Mucius Scaevola the augur and Q.

After the death of the augur, he transferred himself to the care of Q.

Mucius Scaevola, the augur and jurisconsult.

In spite of this, he received signal marks of distinction from Octavian, who not only nominated him augur, but accepted him as his colleague in the consulship (30).

the figure of an Etruscan augur holding a liver in his hand as his trade-mark (Korte, ib.

ATTUS NAVIUS, in Roman legendary history, a famous augur during the reign of Tarquinius Priscus.

He was augur for fifty-five years and wrote a work on the science of divination.

Synonyms:

indicate, bode, portend, foreshow, presage, foretell, prefigure, bespeak, auspicate, omen, signal, betoken, predict, point, threaten, forecast, foreshadow, prognosticate,

Antonyms:

unimpressive, unpointedness, irrelevance, break, undock,