augurshipEtymologyFrom augur + -ship.nounThe office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome.“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!””