auspicial (c as sh)

[Eng. auspic(e); -ial .] 1. Relating to prognostics. 2. Of favourable omen. ăus-pi-cio us, a. [Eng. auspic(e); -ious.] [AUSPICE.] L. Lit .: Having the omens favourable. II. Fig .: Alluding- (1) To the time chosen or the appearances presented: Propitious, favourable. "Sudden, invited by auspicious gales" Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. xiii., 328. and admonish how to catch The auspicious moment, Cowper: Task, bk. lif. (2) To the enterprise undertaken, and specially to its commencement: Prosperous, fortunate. "... the auspicious arms of the Cæsars."-Gibbon: Decline and Fall, ch. xli. the auspicious auspicious commencement of a new era in English commerce."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xxiv. (3) To the higher being able to aid or thwart the enterprise: (a) Auguring or promoting happine , or at least prosperity. (b) Kind, benignant. "Betwixt two seasons comes the auspicious heir." Dryden: Britannia Rediviva. "Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys." Byron: To Romance. âus-pi-cio us-ly, adv. [Eng. auspicious; -ly. In an auspicious manner; with favourable prognostications; favourably.