auspicateauspicate means auspicious. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 65 out of 100.EtymologyFrom Latin auspicatus, past participle of auspicari "to take auspices", from auspex "bird seer", "augur", a contraction of avispex; avis "bird" + specere, spicere, "to view".adjAuspicious.“For by reason that the whole day beside was ominous and dismall, there was no time thereof thought more auspicate and convenient than it, to enter upon the Empire;”verbTo foreshow; to foretoken.To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business.