Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (I) Formation of Ideas
Section VI. Extension of Thought
2. To the Future

512. Omen.

   NOUN:OMEN, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign (indication) [See Indication]; harbinger (precursor) [See Precursor]; yule candle, yule log or clog.
  bird of ill omen; halcyon birds; signs of the times; gathering clouds, thunder, lightning, rainbow, comet, shooting star; rain of blood, warning [See Warning].
  prefigurement [See Prediction]; adytum [See Prediction].
   ADJECTIVE:ILL-BODING, ill-omened, inauspicious.
   QUOTATION:Auspicium melioris ævi.