different between augury vs augurial

English

augur +? -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.

augury (countable and uncountable, plural auguries)

A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
  In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:
  No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

Latin augurialis.

augurial (comparative more augurial, superlative most augurial)

Relating to augurs or to augury.
- 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.

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