augural

On conservait le b�ton augural avec lequel Romulus avait dessin� sur le ciel, suivant le rite �trusque, l'espace o� s'�tait manifest� le grand auspice des douze vautours dans lesquels Rome crut voir la promesse des douze si�cles qu'en effet le destin devait lui accorder.

Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.

Thus, the boundaries of Rome itself, of colonies and camps, were all marked out in accordance with the rules of augural procedure.

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.

He had frequently peacocks at his banquets, which he first served up at a grand augural feast, and which, says Varro, were more commended by the luxurious, than by men of probity and austerity264.