Verb:

குறி சொல்வோன், சூட்சுமமாகக் கூறு, முன்கூட்டி அறிவி,

augurs's Usage Examples:

And it is instructive to observe that when the plebeians extorted their full share of political power they also demanded and obtained admission to every priestly college of political importance, to those, namely, of the pontiffs, the augurs, and the XV viri sacrorum.

Other persons attached to a temple were priests, augurs, sacrificers, barbers, officials in charge of the curtains, masons, 'c.

D'Arbois de Jubainville maintains that in Gaul the three classes of druids, vates and gutuatri, corresponded more or less to the pontifices, augurs and flamens of ancient Rome.

He instituted the flamens (sacred priests) of Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus; the virgins of Vesta, to keep the sacred fire burning on the hearth of the city; the Salii, to guard the shield that fell from heaven; the pontifices and augurs, to arrange the rites and interpret the will of the gods; he also divided the handicraftsmen into nine gilds.

In many nations divination and priesthood have always gone hand in hand; at Rome, for example, the augurs and the XV viri sacrorum, who interpreted the Sibylline books, were priestly colleges.

He was also a member of the college of augurs.

augurs great things for the future.

If an error (vitium) occurred in the auspices, the augurs could, of their own accord or at the request of the senate, inform themselves of the circumstances, and decree upon it.

CROZIER, or pastoral staff, one of the insignia of a bishop, and probably derived from the lituus of the Roman augurs.

Cicero remarks on the existence among the Gauls of augurs or soothsayers, known by the name of Druids, with one of whom, Divitiacus, an Aeduan, he was acquainted.

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,