to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
auspicate in American English
(ˈɔspɪˌkeit)
transitive verbWord forms: -cated, -cating
to initiate with ceremonies calculated to ensure good luck; inaugurate
Word origin
[1595–1605; ‹ L auspicātus consecrated by auguries (ptp. of auspicārī), equiv. to auspic- (s. of auspex) + -ātus-ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: option, posture, redundant, slur, zero-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)