1. 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23: That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an Augurial conception.

2. 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23: That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an Augurial conception.