auspicious (not pre-S.; but ‘auspiciously’ is in Drayton, 1596)
1.
favourable, propitious
Tp. I. ii. 182
“A most auspicious
star,”
All'sW. III. iii. 8.
2.
betokening happiness,
cheerful
Ham. I. ii. 11
“with one auspicious and
one dropping eye.”
