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auspicate

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9 lettersPart of speech verbSorted aaceipstuStarts with AEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck

Word origin

From Latin auspicatus, past participle of auspicari "to take auspices", from auspex "bird seer", "augur", a contraction of avispex; avis "bird" + specere, spicere, "to view".

Used in a sentence

  • For by reason that the whole day beside was ominous and dismall, there was no time thereof thought more auspicate and convenient than it, to enter upon the Empire;
  • Thalaßto was used at Bridals or Weddings in Rome, as an auspicate or lucky word; like this among the Greeks , Hymen O Hymenae , Hymen , &c..

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