Auspicate vs Portend - What's the difference?
auspicate | portend |
To foreshow; to foretoken.
To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business.
to serve as a warning or omen
* John Milton, Paradise Lost
to signify; to denote
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 26
, author=Genevieve Koski
, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
, work=The Onion AV Club
As verbs the difference between auspicate and portend
is that auspicate is to foreshow; to foretoken while portend is to serve as a warning or omen.As an adjective auspicate
is auspicious.auspicate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en-verb)References
* ----portend
English
Verb
(en verb)- A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,
- Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
citation, page= , passage=When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended , Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.}}