Crossword clues for auspice
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auspice \Aus"pice\, n.; pl. Auspices. [L. auspicium, fr. auspex: cf. F. auspice. See Auspicate, a.]
A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.
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Protection; patronage and care; guidance.
Which by his auspice they will nobler make.
--Dryden.Note: In this sense the word is generally plural, auspices; as, under the auspices of the king.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly in the plural English) patronage or protection. 2 An omen or a sign. 3 (context obsolete English) divination from the actions of birds.
WordNet
n. a favorable omen
Usage examples of "auspice".
For Papirius the dictator, returning to Rome in order to take the auspices anew, in consequence of a caution received from the aruspex, left strict orders with the master of the horse to remain in his post, and not to engage in battle during his absence.
Somewhere below this floor Thronzo was digging onward toward the vault room, and Durand wanted the robot to arrive under proper auspices.
Every Chinese house is built on the principles of geomancy, which do not admit of straight lines, and were these to be disregarded the astrologers and soothsayers under whose auspices all houses are erected, predict fearful evils to the impious builders.
The ardour of our mutual kisses, given at first under the auspices of friendship, was not long in exciting our senses to such an extent that in less than a quarter of an hour I had nothing more to desire.
About a month before, a girl from Brussels, as excellent as she was pretty, had been married under my auspices to an Italian named Gaetan, by trade a broker.
She had been received into the Catholic Church under the auspices of the Queen of Naples.
He told me his name, and I recognized in him that Gaetano who had married a pretty woman under my auspices as her godfather.
To raise funds for his researches at Lake Kiboko in the Northwest Frontier District of Zarakal, he was in the United States under the auspices of the American Geographic Foundation for a series of public lectures.
FCC 651919, under the auspices of the Society for the Conversion of Extraterrestrial Nascent Totalitarianisms, calling Maxima Control.
About the latter end of November, the Hanoverian army was wholly assembled at Stade, under the auspices of prince Ferdinand, who resolved without delay to drive the French from the electorate, whither they now began their march.
Finding herself at Bayreuth in an enforced idleness and wishing a stimulant, wishing also to borrow some books, she wrote Casanova, under the auspices of Count Koenig, a mutual friend, the 13th February 1796, recalling herself to his memory.
Danter, including ambrosia, will fall under the auspices of the Tholian Assembly.
In short, we the hosts can either change our strategies about assimilating the immigrant flood or, alternatively, remain unchanged but dam the source of the deluge and do so under legal auspices.
From this state of repose, amounting almost to apathy respecting the past, his thoughts were carried forward to the future, which, in spite of all that existed to overcloud the prospect, glittered with such hues as, under much happier auspices, his unstimulated imagination had not been able to produce, even in its most exalted state.
Furthermore, Clyde had met Sheff under the auspices of Rudy Burgaw, whose rating still stood high.