Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AU'SPI-CATE
AUS-CUL'TA-TO-RYAU'SPICE, or AU'SPI-CES
AU'SPI-CATE, v.t. [L. auspicor.]
- To give a favorable turn to; a sense taken from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before they undertook any important business. – Burke's Reflections.
- To foreshow. – B. Jonson.
- To begin. – Burke.
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