Augurship
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Augurship is a noun meaning (historical) The office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome.
Meaning
(historical) The office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome.
Example Sentences
1880, Anthony Trollope, Life of Cicero, 2004, Kessinger Publishing, page 5, The augurship would have bought him. “So pitiful,” says the biographer, “was the bribe to which he would have sacrificed his honor, his opinions, and the commonwealth!”
Word Forms
- augurships
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include augurate, aedileship, auditorship, archbishopry, procuratorate, propraetorship.
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