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Princeton's WordNet
auspices, protection, aegisnoun
kindly endorsement and guidance
"the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council"
Wiktionary
auspicesnoun
Protection or patronage.
The project took place under the auspices of the local church.
Wikipedia
auspices
Augury is the practice from ancient Roman religion of interpreting omens from the observed behavior of birds. When the individual, known as the augur, interpreted these signs, it is referred to as "taking the auspices". "Auspices" (Latin auspicium) literally means "looking at birds", and Latin auspex, another word for "augur", literally means "one who looks at birds". Depending upon the birds, the auspices from the gods could be favorable or unfavorable (auspicious or inauspicious). Sometimes politically motivated augurs would fabricate unfavorable auspices in order to delay certain state functions, such as elections. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes, the generic model of a seer in the Greco-Roman literary culture.This type of omen reading was already a millennium old in the time of Classical Greece: in the fourteenth-century BC diplomatic correspondence preserved in Egypt called the "Amarna correspondence", the practice was familiar to the king of Alasia in Cyprus who needed an 'eagle diviner' to be sent from Egypt. This earlier, indigenous practice of divining by bird signs, familiar in the figure of Calchas, the bird-diviner to Agamemnon, who led the army (Iliad I.69), was largely replaced by sacrifice-divination through inspection of the sacrificial victim's liver—haruspices—during the Orientalizing period of archaic Greek culture. Plato notes that hepatoscopy held greater prestige than augury by means of birds.One of the most famous auspices is the one which is connected with the founding of Rome. Once the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, arrived at the Palatine Hill, the two argued over where the exact position of the city should be. Romulus was set on building the city upon the Palatine, but Remus wanted to build the city on the strategic and easily fortified Aventine Hill. The two agreed to settle their argument by testing their abilities as augures and by the will of the gods. Each took a seat on the ground apart from one another, and, according to Plutarch, Remus saw six vultures, while Romulus saw twelve. Vultures were pre-eminent in Roman augury, furnishing the strongest signs an augur could receive from a wild bird. They were subject to protective taboos and also called ‘sacred birds’.
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auspices
Auspices refer to the guidance, support, sponsorship or patronage provided by a person or organization. It can also refer to the signs or omens used in predicting future events.
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Auspices
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of auspices in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of auspices in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of auspices in a Sentence
This effort to set up a terrorist infrastructure under (Syrian) regime auspices is unacceptable, as far as we are concerned, and we will take action with great might against any terrorist infrastructure that we see and identify here in this area.
We are still happy to accept either of those offers brokered under the auspices of the The United Nations, we would be happy to sign them tomorrow.
Lordstown is a great area -- I guess I like it because I won so big there, united Auto Workers're very proud of what's happened in Ohio, under United Auto Workers federal auspices, United Auto Workers've gotten so many things done and Lima Army Tank Plant is one of our great achievements.
Relieving sanctions on entities active in funding Irans revolutionary foreign policy, especially under the auspices of trying to claw back a fatally flawed deal that added to Tehrans coffers, would be the definition of a self-imposed strategic setback.
I know this : that the relationship is such that that wouldn't happen under my auspices, but I don't know about that. Nobody knows.
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