Crossword-Solution: AUSPICE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Auspice | a. | A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future. |
| Auspice | a. | Protection; patronage and care; guidance. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “AUSPICE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BIRD flight observation (for divination) | 1 answer |
| OBSERVATION of bird flight/birds in divination | 1 answer |
| Prophetic token | 1 answer |
| BIRD observation by augurs | 2 answers |
| Favorable sign | 2 answers |
| Prophetic sign | 2 answers |
| Sign of a coming event | 6 answers |
| Warning of a coming event | 6 answers |
| guidance | 32 answers |
| Portent | 39 answers |
| Divination | 43 answers |
| Omen | 53 answers |
| Augury | 54 answers |
| Patronage | 64 answers |
| Herald | 81 answers |
| care | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AUSPICE (5)
THIS labouring, vast, Tellurian galleon, Riding at anchor off the orient sun, Had broken its cable, and stood out to space Down some frore Arctic of the aërial ways: And now, back warping from the inclement main, Its vaporous shroudage drenched with icy rain, It swung into its azure roads again; When, floated on the prosperous sun-gale, you Lit, a white halcyon auspice, ’mid our frozen crew.
How could it—'Johnny Dromore duce, et auspice Johnny Dromore!' She had been taken, indeed, to the National Gallery while at school.
But then if murder be The law by which not only conscience-blind Creatures, but man too prospers with his kind; Who leaving all his guilty fellows free, Under your fatal auspice and divine Compulsion, leagued in some mysterious ban Against one innocent and helpless man, Abuse their liberty to murder mine: And sworn to silence, like their masters mute In heaven, and like them twirling through the mask Of darkness, answering to all I ask, Point up to them whose work they execute! ROS.
Such auspice of the war To us was fair; and elsewhere new successes Befel, whereon the right Great Ares routing wheel'd the chariot-battle.
But if you wish to make sure whether it is a good auspice or a bad, you kill the spider and count its legs.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1978–2017).