augurate

Noun

 * 1) The position or office of an augur.

Verb

 * 1) To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
 * 2) * 1768-1777,, The Light of Nature Pursued
 * There are habits of misapprehension and prejudice common to every class of men; fretfulness, industrious to seek, or even feign, and brood upon matter that may nourish it; melancholy, augurating always for the worst; besides many more, some of which every man may find lurking in his own breast, if he will but look narrowly into it.