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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
auspice /ˈɔːspɪs/

▶noun archaic an omen.

– phrases
under the auspices of with the support or protection of.

– origin C16, lit. ‘the observation of bird flight in divination’: from Fr., or from L. auspicium, from auspex ‘observer of birds’.

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