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auspicate | Word of the Day
January 01, 2019
auspicate
[
aw
-spi-keyt]
verb
1.
to initiate with ceremonies calculated to ensure good luck; inaugurate.
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WORD OF THE DAY
auspicate
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QUOTES
He was soon in great request to deliver addresses and
auspicate
new ventures …
-- , "In Memoriam: Edward Thring,"
The Cambridge Review
, November 2, 1887
ORIGIN
Romans were addicted to religion, law, and the military (not always sharply differentiated), and no public business could be conducted without first taking the auspices. The basic Latin word is
auspex
(stem
auspic-
), literally "bird watcher." The syllable
au-
is a reduced form of
avi-
, the stem of the Latin noun
avis
"bird"; the suffix -spex means "one who watches or inspects," a derivative of the verb
specere
"to observe, watch" (which has many derivatives in English, e.g.,
expect
,
inspect
,
suspect
, etc.). The Latin derivative noun
auspicium
"bird watching" also applied to other forms of divination, e.g., ex
caelō
, i.e., observing thunder and lightning;
ex quadrupedibus
, observing the behavior of four-footed animals, e.g. a wolf eating grass;
ex dīrīs
from observing dreadful, uncanny, or dire signs. There were other forms of auspices too silly to mention, but when the results of public elections were at stake or there was an important, controversial bill being debated in the Senate, why surely the gods had to approve (or not).
Auspicate
comes from the Latin past participle
auspicātus
, a derivative of the verb
auspicārī
"to take the auspices."
Auspicate
entered English in the early 17th century.
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