Definitions for auspice

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auspice aus·pice

Spelling: [aw-spis]

IPA: /ˈɔ spɪs/

Auspice is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in auspice (aceipsu).

Definitions for auspice

noun

1. Usually, auspices. patronage; support; sponsorship:
2. Often, auspices. a favorable sign or propitious circumstance.
3. a divination or prognostication, originally from observing birds.

Origin of auspice

1525-35; French Latin auspicium a bird-watching, divination from flight of birds, equivalent to auspic- (stem of auspex) + -ium -ium

Examples for auspice

auspice, aw′spis, n. an omen drawn from observing birds: augury—generally used in pl.

My little heroine, Jerry Carroway, is engaged as their factotum, and every auspice is favorable.

This form of divination, so well known to the Romans, is still kept in remembrance by the use of the words augury and auspice.