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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].
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. His name does sufficiently Auspicate the Work.
    — from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby
  7. 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
  8. His name does sufficiently Auspicate the Work."
    — from There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks

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