augurate

English

Etymology 1

augur +‎ -ate

Noun

augurate (plural augurates)

  1. The position or office of an augur.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Merivale to this entry?)

Etymology 2

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.
    • 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

Italian

Verb

augurate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of augurare
  2. second-person plural imperative of augurare
  3. feminine plural of augurato

Latin

Verb

augurāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of augurō
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