The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auspicious \Aus*pi"cious\, a. [See Auspice.]
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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.
--Macaulay. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. ``Auspicious chief.''
--Dryden.-
Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things. ``Thy auspicious mistress.''
--Shak. ``Auspicious gales.''
--Pope.Syn: See Propitious. [1913 Webster] -- Aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Aus*pi"cious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an auspicious way.
WordNet
adv. in an auspicious manner; "he started his new job auspiciously on his birthday" [syn: propitiously] [ant: inauspiciously, inauspiciously]
Usage examples of "auspiciously".
After listening, however, to the affectionate remonstrances of the faculty and board of trustees, who well knew the value of his wisdom in the supervision of the college and the power of his mere presence and example upon the students, he resumed his labours with the resolution to remain at his post and carry forward the great work he had so auspiciously begun.
Ardent in the prosecution of heresy, Cyril auspiciously opened his reign by oppressing the Novatians, the most innocent and harmless of the sectaries.
We posted sentries on shore, and not laying down our oars, we ate the food that the renegade had provisioned, and prayed with all our hearts to God and Our Lady that they help and favor us and allow us to bring to a happy conclusion what had begun so auspiciously.
Potts, thus auspiciously launched upon the social sea of Little Arcady, was henceforth to occupy herself prominently with the regulation of its ebb and flow.
What made matters difficult was that the Captain kept asking her how the search for Sylveste was going, and she kept having to break the news to him that it was not going as auspiciously as one might wish.
Most auspiciously, the Arab League has appealed to the United Nations Security Council to stop the war.