Augury vs Vaticination - What's the difference?
augury | vaticination | Related terms |
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 Prediction, prophecy.
* 1759 , , The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 28)
* 1836 ,
*:Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Augury is a related term of vaticination.
As nouns the difference between augury and vaticination
is that augury is a divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals while vaticination is prediction, prophecy.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)vaticination
English
Noun
(en noun)- Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye.