Noun: augurate
| Singular | augurate |
| Plural | augurates |
Sample Sentences
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...we cannot wonder that the emperor allowed him to enjoy no higher distinction than the formal dignity of the Augurate, in which he carefully makred the degrees of his esteem... [1865, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire:]
Nouns inflected like augurate
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin augurātus (“augurate”). By surface analysis, augur + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office). See: Latin Nouns '
augurātus'.