Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or practice of prognosticating by the inspection of the entrails of animals slain in sacrifice; divination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
haruspicy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
divination ,fortune-telling , by reading theentrails of animals (a practice of Ancient Rome).
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Examples
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The Romans had their Sybilline books and their Etruscan custom of haruspication (divination from entrails).
CHANCE MAURICE KENDALL 1968
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
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