| 单词 | entrail reading |
| 释义 | > as lemmasentrail reading Objective, forming nouns denoting divination by inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, as entrail reading, etc. Cf. haruspicy n. ΚΠ 1831 T. Keightley Mythol. Greece ii. x. in Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy 399 Prophecy by augury and by entrail-inspection. 1886 J. Cunningham Growth of Church iii. 118 In the temples of Greece and Italy there were sacrifices and ritual... The whole thing consisted in sheep-killing, entrail-inspecting, incense-burning, and augury. 1923 C. P. Eells tr. Philostratus Life & Times Apollonius of Tyana viii. 232 The science of entrail-reading..prefers for its purpose the bodies of goats and lambs. 1953 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 14 267 Anthropologists tended to assume that this widespread occurrence meant that blood sacrifice and entrail divination were practices spontaneously flowing out of human nature. 2015 W. Furley & V. Gysembergh Reading the Liver i. 10 We should be cautious about concluding that entrail-reading was introduced into Greece in the post-Homeric period. < as lemmas |
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