† auspicyn.
Obsolete.
The drawing of omens from birds.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by birds, augury > [noun]
augurya1413
augurationc1450
ornomancyc1500
auspice1533
auspicy1603
alectromancy1652
ornithomancy1652
alectryomancy1658
bird-divination1670
orneoscopics1727
orniscopics1775
ornithoscopy1840
orniscopy1890
1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xvii. 356 Auspicie was rather an inuention of pollicie.
1628 tr. P. Matthieu Powerfull Favorite 120 He consulted with his Auspicy to know what it presaged.
1687 T. Shadwell tr. Juvenal Tenth Satyr x. (note) Who interpret dextro pede ‘with most prosperous Auspicies.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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- devil-devil
- devil-dodging
- devil-drawer
- devil-driven
- devil-driver
- devil-driving
- devil-extractor
- devil-god
- devil-haired
- devil-haunted
- devil-hive
- devil-in-a-bush
- devil-in-the-bush
- devil-inspired
- devil-jailor
- devil-like
- devil-master
- devil-may-care
- devil-may-careism
- devil-may-carelessness
- dicible
- dicier
- diciest
- dicing