auspice
Usually auspices . patronage; support; sponsorship: under the auspices of the Department of Education.
Often auspices . a favorable sign or propitious circumstance.
a divination or prognostication, originally from observing birds.
Origin of auspice
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How to use auspice in a sentence
A lateral move in the offing provides opportunity to trailblaze new frontiers under existing career auspice.
This form of divination, so well known to the Romans, is still kept in remembrance by the use of the words augury and auspice.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey ChaucerLove had been a star of evil auspice for the women of the Medici family!
Isabella Orsini | Francesco Domenico GuerrazziBut if you wish to make sure whether it is a good auspice or a bad, you kill the spider and count its legs.
Csar or Nothing | Po Baroja BarojaNow with good auspice urged along, with mutual minds they love and are beloved.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus | Caius Valerius Catullus
From thence, "Tencro duce et auspice Tencro," I will try to find out my little dairy.
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2) | Edward Gibbon
British Dictionary definitions for auspice
/ (ˈɔːspɪs) /
(usually plural) patronage or guidance (esp in the phrase under the auspices of)
(often plural) a sign or omen, esp one that is favourable
Origin of auspice
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