augur > define

noun

• Ancient Rome. ( a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy)
  • synonyms: auspex

verb

• Indicate by signs.
  • usage: "These signs bode bad news"
  • synonyms: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
• Predict from an omen. .

• (v.t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.
• (n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.
• (v.i.) To anticipate, to foretell or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.
• (n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds or unusual occurrences.
• (v.i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.