Omayyad (omiyad)

and a. [ or short o, distinguished from ὦ μέγα, great or long o. See omega.] The fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet (0, 0). ominatet (om'i-nat), v. [ boding, prognostic, sign, perhaps lit. a (pro- phetic) voice,' os ( or- ), the mouth (or 'a thing heard,' aus- in a us cult are , hear, auris , orig. heard, * ausis , ear: see auscultate and earl ), + -men , a common suffix.] A casual event or occurrence supposed to portend good or evil; a sign or in- 2. Of good omen; auspicious. dication of some future event; a prognostic; an augury; a presage. See augur . I see now by this Inversion of my Armour that my Dukedom will be turned into a Kingdom; taking that for a good Omen which some other of weaker Spirits would have taken for a bad. Baker, Chronicles, p. 22. Ah, no! a you sand cheerful omens give Hope of yet happier days, whose dawn is nigh. Bryant , The Ages, viii. Syn. Omen , Portent , Sign, Presage, Prognostic , Augury , Foreboding. Omen and portent are the most weighty and supernatural of these words. Omen and sign are likely to refer to that which is more immediate, the others to the more remote. Omen and portent are external; presage and foreboding are internal and subjective; the others are either internal or external. Sign is the most general. Prognostic applies to the prophesying of states of health or kinds of weather, and is the only one of these words that implies a Nor can I here pa over an ominous circumstance that happened the last time we played together. Goldsmith, Vicar, ii. Which portentum Bell ones us took for a very happy and ominous token. Coryat, Crudities, I. 113. Notwithstanding he [Lionel, Bishop of Concord i a] had a good ominous name to have made a peace, nothing followed. Bacon , Hist. Hen. VII. 3. Of ill omen; giving indication of coming ill; portentous; inauspicious; unlucky. 'Tis ominous;... I like not this abodement. Chapman, All Fools, iv. 1. And yet this Death of mine, I fear, Will ominous to her appear. Cowley, The Mistre , Concealment. ominously (om'i-nus-li), adv . In an ominous manner; with significant coincidence; significantly; with ill omen; portentously. ominousne ominousne (om'i-nus-nes), n. The property of being ominous, significant, or portentous. omi ible (ō-mis'i-bl), a. [ Public heaps of mere pamphleteer and parliamentary matter, so attainable elsewhere, often so omi ible were it not to be attained. Carlyle , Misc., IV. 71. ( Davies .)