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auspicate
[aw-spi-keyt]
verb (used with object)
to initiate with ceremonies calculated to ensure good luck; inaugurate.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of auspicate1
Example Sentences
Will you rise with me to the dignity and affecting associations that surrounded and auspicated the struggle of our forefathers for this principle?
The life so impressively auspicated lasted till the 29th of June, 1894.
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.
Our words "auspicious" and "auspicate" are derived from the "auspices," or outlook on nature which these seers practised.
Would to God I could auspicate good influences!
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