Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
haruspicy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.
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- noun Alternative form of
haruspicy .
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Examples
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The last method mentioned in text quoted was aruspicy (Vulg. exta consuluit).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Let there be born a Magian from the infamous conjoining of Gellius and his mother, and he shall learn the Persian aruspicy.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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Greeks, sorcery to the Persians, aruspicy to the Etruscans, and to the
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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"pyromancy," if in the entrails of animals sacrificed on the altars of demons, "aruspicy."
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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