The presaging or the predicting of future events that indicate what is supposed to take place: The break in the clouds was an auspicy of better weather.

In school, Ralph found out that in Roman times auspicy was practiced among people to find out how certain political situations were to be decided upon. Romulus and Remus, for example, decided to end their discussion about where to build the city of Rome by checking out how many vultures they saw while sitting on the ground.