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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good luck.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To be an augury of; foreshow.
  2. To initiate or inaugurate with ceremonies calculated to insure good luck. This meaning of the word was borrowed from the Roman practice of taking the auspices before undertaking any important business.
  3. To begin or introduce in a favorable or auspicious manner.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To foreshow; to foretoken.
  2. v. 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.
  3. adj. Auspicious.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Auspicious.
  2. v. obsolete To foreshow; to foretoken.
  3. v. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. indicate by signs
  2. v. commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck

Etymologies

  1. 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". (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin auspicārī, auspicāt-, from auspex, auspic-, bird augur; see auspice. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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