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Auspicate   Listen
verb
Auspicate  v. t.  
1.
To foreshow; to foretoken. (Obs.)
2.
To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. "They auspicate all their proceedings."


adjective
Auspicate  adj.  Auspicious. (Obs.)





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"Auspicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our station, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our situation and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence ...
— Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English - Based on the Requirements for Admission to College • Gilbert Sykes Blakely


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