Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an auspicious manner; with favorable omens; happily; prosperously; favorably; propitiously.

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  • adverb In an auspicious way.

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  • adverb in an auspicious manner

Etymologies

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auspicious +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The Supreme Court opened its fall term auspiciously yesterday by sinking the environmental Pequod known as NRDC v. Winter.

    The Greens Get Harpooned 2008

  • "There was, auspiciously, a Rubber Maid cart of farm fresh eggs for sale in the front row."

    Extra Fizz: Bill Who? « PubliCola 2010

  • In this instance this author took an inquisitive peek into the windows of the building that is 80 Grand Street, across from Paulus Hook Park in Downtown Jersey City, and decided to find out what the auspiciously illuminated colors mean.

    Lia Petridis Maiello: Jersey City Museum of Russian Art (MoRA) is Worth Crossing the Hudson Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

  • In this instance this author took an inquisitive peek into the windows of the building that is 80 Grand Street, across from Paulus Hook Park in Downtown Jersey City, and decided to find out what the auspiciously illuminated colors mean.

    Lia Petridis Maiello: Jersey City Museum of Russian Art (MoRA) is Worth Crossing the Hudson Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

  • In the previous century, a teenage girl, under the pen name Miles Franklin wrote the auspiciously titled novel “My Brilliant Career”.

    Do we all have a story? « Write Anything 2010

  • Seen as an auspiciously magickal time due to its precise occurrence between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice, Samhain was associated with the point between life and death.

    Kelley Harrell: Samhain -- Nature's Holy Day for Managing Seasonal Affective Disorder Kelley Harrell 2011

  • Thus auspiciously he launched the king from whose line came Kenneth MacAlpine crowned at Scone the first Irish king of all Scotland.

    Ss Petri & Pauli John 2009

  • Our friends, or rather the friends of our father, have instituted a subscription for our benefit, which Mr. Weston thinks has commenced auspiciously; but you must be aware that it is a very uncertain resource; but be its produce what it may, I hope, with the aid of our own exertions, we shall make it do.

    Letter 392 2009

  • Thus auspiciously he launched the king from whose line came Kenneth MacAlpine crowned at Scone the first Irish king of all Scotland.

    9 June - St Colum Cille John 2009

  • The imprint—to the extent that you can describe something online as an imprint—kicked off auspiciously in April 2010, when Mr. Krakauer's "Three Cups of Deceit," an investigation into the background of humanitarian Greg Mortenson , founder of the educational charity "Pennies for Peace," grabbed national headlines and rocketed to the top of best-seller lists.

    Before Liberty Was a Lady Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

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