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Definition of Auspicated
1. auspicate [v] - See also: auspicate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auspicated
Literary usage of Auspicated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roman Assemblies from Their Origin to the End of the Republic by George Willis Botsford (1909)
"... assemblies were auspicated. Although for the tribal assemblies the question
is more difficult, it seems reasonably certain that whereas a patrician ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"... and she found herself in tears, sprinkling it as she was accustomed to do the
heads of the victims, when she auspicated the human sacrifices. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... the stern sacrifice of poor Virginia auspicated the downfall of the Decemviri ;
and Caesar s ' wounded vesture' shut out from the ' kind souls' of his ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1841)
"... that you have auspicated and sanctioned your first appearance in the arena of
public discussion by manifesting a zeal and interest in this great cause, ..."
5. Historical View of the American Revolution by George Washington Greene (1895)
"It is almost impossible to read how the three were mingled and not think of the
solemn banquets of Homer's Greeks auspicated by sacrifice and liba- ..."
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