Literary notes about auspicate (AI summary)
In literature, auspicate is employed as a versatile verb that often conveys the act of bestowing or invoking favorable signs or influences. In some texts, it carries a ritualistic resonance, as when a monarch is depicted as performing rites intended to secure advantageous outcomes [1]. At times, the word is interwoven into dramatic questions and exhortations, evoking both the fatality of certain acts and the yearning for positive change [2] and [3]. It may also be used to designate particular locales or contexts imbued with promise, suggesting that a setting itself can be auspicate of prosperity or progress [4] and [5]. Furthermore, when a name is said to auspicate a work, it underlines an inherent quality or destiny embodied in the title, an idea that is further enriched by etymological connections to divination and omens [6], [7], and [8].
- The King is made to auspicate and to pray, but not to trust that the Franchise Bill and the Relief Bill will be productive of good.
— from A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of - Can the son better auspicate his arms Than by the slaying of who slew the father?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 70, No. 433, November 1851 by Various - Would to God I could auspicate good influences!
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple - For sundry reasons think you had better auspicate by Twickenham, and reserve Bentinck Street, for the bonne bouche week.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon - There is one thing I would mention which seems to auspicate the speedy development of the valley of the North Red River.
— from Minnesota and Dacotah by C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Andrews - His name does sufficiently Auspicate the Work.
— from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby - Our words "auspicious" and "auspicate" are derived from the "auspices," or outlook on nature which these seers practised.
— from Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke - His name does sufficiently Auspicate the Work."
— from There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks