augurate

English

Etymology 1

From augur +‎ -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

Noun

augurate (plural augurates)

1. The position or office of an augur.
   • 1865, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire‎^[1]:

     ...we cannot wonder that the emperor allowed him to enjoy no higher distinction than the formal dignity of the Augurate, in which he carefully makred the degrees of his esteem...

Etymology 2

From augur +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix)

Verb

augurate (third-person singular simple present augurates, present participle augurating, simple past and past participle augurated)

1. To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
   • 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued

     There are habits of misapprehension and prejudice common to every class of men; fretfulness, industrious to seek, or even feign, and brood upon matter that may nourish it; […] melancholy, augurating always for the worst; besides many more, some of which every man may find lurking in his own breast, if he will but look narrowly into it.

Anagrams

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

augurate

1. inflection of augurare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

augurate f pl

1. feminine plural of augurato

Latin

Verb

augurāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of augurō

Spanish

Verb

augurate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of augurar combined with te