Part 779

<i>Chapman.</i>

<h1>Augurship</h1> <Xpage=101>

<hw>Au"gur*ship</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The office, or period of office, of an augur.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Augury</h1> <Xpage=101>

<hw>Au"gu*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Auguries</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>aucurium</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.</def>

<blockquote>From their flight strange <b>auguries</b> she drew. <i>Drayton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little <b>augury</b> of his future greatness. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.</def>

<h1>August</h1> <Xpage=101>

<hw>Au*gust"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>augustus</ets>; cf. <ets>augere</ets> to increase; in the language of religion, to honor by offerings: cf. F. <ets>auguste</ets>. See <er>Augment</er>.]</ety> <def>Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority.</def> "Forms <i>august</i>." <i>Pope</i>. "<i>August</i> in visage." <i>Dryden</i>. "To shed that <i>august</i> blood." <i>Macaulay</i>.

<blockquote>So beautiful and so <b>august</b> a spectacle. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To mingle with a body so <b>august</b>. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Grand; magnificent; majestic; solemn; awful; noble; stately; dignified; imposing.</syn>

<h1>August</h1> <Xpage=101>

<hw>Au"gust</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Augustus</ets>. See note below, and <wf>August</wf>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.</def>

<note>&hand; The old Roman name was <i>Sextilis</i>, the <i>sixth</i> month from March, the month in which the primitive Romans, as well as Jews, began the year. The name was changed to <i>August</i> in honor of Augustus C\'91sar, the first emperor of Rome, on account of his victories, and his entering on his first consulate in that month.</note>

<h1>Augustan</h1> <Xpage=101>

<hw>Au*gus"tan</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Augustanus</ets>, fr. <ets>Augustus</ets>. See <wf>August</wf>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to Augustus C\'91sar or to his times.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.</def>

<cs><col>Augustan age</col> <cd>of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus C\'91sar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the <i>Augustan age<i> of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the <i>Augustan age<i> of English literature.</cd> -- <col>Augustan confession</col> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld>, <cd>or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at <i>Augusta Vindelicorum<i>, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.</cd></cs>

<h1>Augustine, Augustinian</h1> <Xpage=101>

<hw><hw>Au*gus"tine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Au`gus*tin"i*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.</def>

<h1>Augustinian</h1> <Xpage=101>

<hw>Au`gus*tin"i*an</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines.</def>

<cs><col>Augustinian canons</col>, <cd>an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also <altname>regular canons of St. Austin</altname>, and <altname>black canons</altname>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Augustinian hermits</col> or <col>Austin friars</col></mcol>, <cd>an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790.</cd> -- <col>Augustinian nuns</col>, <cd>an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine.</cd> -- <col>Augustinian rule</col>, <cd>a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders.</cd></cs> <-- sic original was "Regular canons of St. Austin".?? Not St. Augustine? -->

<h1>Augustinian</h1> <Xpage=101>