Augury vs Bode - What's the difference?
augury | bode |
A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=2 To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
As a noun augury
is a divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.As a proper noun bode is
.augury
English
Noun
(auguries)- 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.
citation, passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}
Quotations
* (English Citations of "augury")Synonyms
* See alsoHyponyms
* ailuromancy, felidomancy (cats) * alectryomancy (chickens) * arachnomancy (spiders) * auspice (birds) * entomomancy (insects) * hippomancy (horses) * ichthyomancy (fish) * myomancy (mice) * myrmomancy (ants) * ophiomancy (snakes) * zoomancy (any animal)bode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .