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augurate

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English

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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

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From augur +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix)

Verb

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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

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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augurate

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

Etymology 2

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Participle

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augurate f pl

  1. feminine plural of augurato

Latin

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Verb

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augurāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of augurō

Spanish

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Verb

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augurate

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