Auspicate

Quick meaning: Auspicate is a verb meaning (transitive) To foreshow; to foretoken.

Meaning

(transitive) To foreshow; to foretoken.

More Meanings

1. Auspicious.
2. (transitive) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

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;

In a fast running world, such as the one in which we are all living, the tendency and the will to speed it up to reach an auspicate “time 0” between two actions (send a message/receive an answer, leave home/reach the office, etc.) is undeniable.

For mee thinks it is not an auspicate beginning of a feast, nor agreeable to amity and good fellowship, to snatch or lurch one from another , to have many hands in a dish at once, to crosse one another with the elbow, and to bee with hand or arme in his fellows way, striving a vie who should be more nimble with his fingers;

Word Forms

• auspicates
• auspicating
• auspicated

Synonyms for auspicate

Depending on context, synonyms include presage, augur, portend, omen, foretell, forecast.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prefigure, foreshadow, foretell, prognosticate, forecast, bode.

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