auspication

plural auspications

1. countablehistoricaluncountableDivination by birds; auspice.

   [This] auspication contradicts the typical character of Roman auspications as yes / no inquiries and the typical reference of an auspication to a single day.

   1998, Roberta Stewart, Public Office in Early Rome: Ritual Procedure and Political Practice, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 41

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   ... auspication of a different kind. He pointed out that "to have the auspices" meant the active possibility to […] auspication which always applied to all assemblies. The observation of the flight of birds was a type of[…]

   2014 July 14, William McCuaig, Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 208

   ... auspication begun at night could continue into the day. Other kinds of auspices could be received at, or after, dawn: for example, Livy imagines a dictator watching for the signal of favourable signs ex avibus from augurs on the[…]

   2019 March 7, Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 150