augural
Example Sentences
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Murphy, winner of the augural Players Tour Championship two weeks ago, had been widely tipped to go all the way in China having disposed of top-ranked John Higgins in the quarter-finals.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2011
Pursuant to my promise I send you by mail with this, the Eagle Penholder and pen with which I have written my in augural address.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shultz may have laid the Falklands ghost to rest during a private meeting with another in augural guest: Argentina's newly elected civilian President, Raul Alfonsin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Queen Mother Nazli was a devotee of crystal balls, card reading, the scrutiny of tea leaves, and the augural dissection of pigeons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adj. predicting &c. v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic†, fatidical†; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent†, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise†. ominous, portentous, augurous†, augurial, augural; auspicial†, auspicious; prescious†, monitory, extispicious†, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
