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adjective

Auspicious adj.

Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. "Auspicious union of order and freedom."

Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. "Auspicious chief."

Favoring; favorable; propitious; applied to persons or things. "Thy auspicious mistress." "Auspicious gales."

Synonyms: See Propitious.

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Etymology of 'Auspicious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Auspicious" Quotes from Famous Books

... flowing sheet, and was soon clear the English Channel; the voyage promised to be auspicious, favouring gales bore them without accident to within a few hundred miles of the Cape of Good Hope, when, for the first time, they were becalmed. Amine was delighted: in the evenings she would pace the deck with Philip; then all was ...

— The Phantom Ship • Frederick Marryat

... the day succeeding that auspicious night for the party in the boat, that Miss Huntington and her mother made their appearance upon the quarter-deck, and tendered their thanks for the service rendered. Captain Ratlin received them there with a frank, manly air, assured them of full protection, ...

— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray

... king, conversing with such a language, having advantages so absolutely unrivalled, and again this king and this language concurring with a treasure so supernatural of spiritual wisdom as the subject of their ministrations, and all three concurring with political events so auspicious—the founding of a new and mighty metropolis in Egypt, and the silent advance to supreme power amongst men of a new empire, martial beyond all precedent as regarded means, but not as regarded ends—working in all ...

— Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 • Thomas de Quincey

... Volsungs a most marvellous sight was seen, for there came a man walking on the waters. Sigurd straightway took him on board his dragon ship, and the stranger, who gave his name as Feng or Fioellnir, promised favourable winds. Also he taught Sigurd how to distinguish auspicious omens. In reality the old man was Odin or Hnikar, the wave-stiller, but Sigurd did not ...

— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber

... visitor lately—I mean one who has brought a change, and a toothbrush; and for the auspicious event we rigged him up a stretcher bed, the most comfortable of things, canvas stretched on to a wooden frame, with a mattress on the top. You could not wish for anything softer. He was one of our ocean companions; his nickname of Mike still sticks to him. On ...

— A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba • Mrs. Cecil Hall

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