auspicate

To foreshow; to foretoken.

To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business.

Auspicious.

For by reason that the whole day beside was ominous and dismall, there was no time thereof thought more auspicate and convenient than it, to enter upon the Empire;

For mee thinks it is not an auspicate beginning of a feast, nor agreeable to amity and good fellowship, to snatch or lurch one from another , to have many hands in a dish at once, to crosse one another with the elbow, and to bee with hand or arme in his fellows way, striving a vie who should be more nimble with his fingers;