augury
英語
[编辑]詞 源
[编辑]augur + -y,
發音
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]根據 動物 外貌 或 行為 所作 的 占 卜 。- (引申)
征 兆 ,預 兆 。- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:
- No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
作為 重要 事物 預 兆 的 事件 。
下位 詞
[编辑]- ailuromancy, felidomancy (貓)
- alectryomancy (雞)
- arachnomancy (
蜘蛛 ) - auspice (
鳥類 ) - entomomancy (
昆蟲 ) - hippomancy (
馬 ) - ichthyomancy (
魚 ) - myomancy (
老 鼠 ) - myrmomancy (螞蟻)
- ophiomancy (
蛇 ) - zoomancy (
任 何 動物 )