Noah Webster
Ominous
OM'INOUS, adjective [Latin ominosus.]
1. Foreboding or presaging evil; indicating a future evil event; inauspicious.
In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous
2. Foreshowing or exhibiting signs of good.
Though he had a good ominous name to have made peace, nothing followed.