auspicial

[ aw-spish-uhl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to auspices:

   auspicial rites.

2. auspicious.

Word History and Origins

Origin of auspicial¹

1605–15; < Latin auspici ( um ) auspice + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Adj. predicting &c. v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic†, fatidical†; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent†, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise†. ominous, portentous, augurous†, augurial, augural; auspicial†, auspicious; prescious†, monitory, extispicious†, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.

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