Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "coeptis".
The Great Seal of the United States, reproduced on the dollar bill, also Includes two phrases of Latin: Annuit coeptis ("He has favored our undertakings) and Novus ordo seclorum ("A new order of the ages").
Charles Thomson, the perennial secretary of Congress, replaced Bartons Deo favente with a motto borrowed from Virgils Aeneid Annuit coeptis (God has nodded at the undertaking)and another motto borrowed from Virgils EcloguesNovus ordo saeclorum (A new order of the ages is born).