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commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck
They auspicated the trip with a bottle of champagne -
indicate, as with a sign or an omen
These signs bode bad news
How To Use auspicate In A Sentence
- 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_! Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College
- This is the LAW (the author and I use no different terms) which this new government, almost as soon as it could cry in the cradle, and as one of the very first acts by which it auspicated its entrance into function, the pledge it gives of the firmness of its policy, -- such is the law that this proud power prescribes to abject nations. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
- If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceeding on America with the old warning of the Church, sursum corda! I. On Conciliation with America
- There is one thing I would mention which seems to auspicate the speedy development of the valley of the North Red River. Archive 2005-12-01
- They auspicated the trip with a bottle of champagne
- Etymology?] [Footnote: 77. auspicate Etymology and derivation?] [Footnote: 78. Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America
- Every new magistracy, succeeding by homicide, is auspicated by accusing its predecessors in the office of tyranny, and it continues by the exercise of what they charged upon others. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
- Taking [85] into their most serious consideration the _best_ means for making such an establishment that their religion, laws, and liberties might not be in danger of being again subverted," they auspicate all their proceedings by stating as some of those _best_ means, "in the The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
- To conclude, while from the sister's words he had reckoned upon a speedy delivery he was, however, it must be owned, not a little alleviated by the intelligence that the issue so auspicated after an ordeal of such duress now testified once more to the mercy as well as to the bounty of the Supreme Being. Ulysses
- Never, surely, was a political career more impressively auspicated. Collections and Recollections