单词 | extispex |
释义 | extispexn. Roman History. One whose duty it was to inspect the entrails of sacrificial victims for the purpose of divination; a haruspex. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [noun] > one who practises haruspex1584 bowel-gazer1587 bowel-prier1600 paunch-porer1656 extispex1727 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Extispices, the same as aruspices. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In Italy, the first Extispices were the Hetrurians. 1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 332 The officers were extispices or aruspices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1727 |
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