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auspices
1. Protection or support; patronage.
2. A sign indicative of future prospects; a favorable sign or propitious circumstance; an omen: "The auspices for the new venture appeared to be favorable."
3. Observation of and divination from the actions of birds.
4. Divination or prognostication, originally from observing the behavior of birds.
5. Etymology: from Latin auspicium, "divination by observing the flight of birds"; from auspex, auspicis, literally, "bird seer"; from avis, "bird", and the stem of specere, spicere, "to see, to look at, to watch".
2. A sign indicative of future prospects; a favorable sign or propitious circumstance; an omen: "The auspices for the new venture appeared to be favorable."
3. Observation of and divination from the actions of birds.
4. Divination or prognostication, originally from observing the behavior of birds.
5. Etymology: from Latin auspicium, "divination by observing the flight of birds"; from auspex, auspicis, literally, "bird seer"; from avis, "bird", and the stem of specere, spicere, "to see, to look at, to watch".
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auspic-, auspec- +
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spec-, spic-, spect-, spectat-, spectro- -spectr, -spectful, -spection, -spective
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