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单词 orniscopics
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orniscopicsn.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek ὄρνις , -scopic comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ὄρνις bird (see ornitho- comb. form) + -scopic comb. form: see -ic suffix 2. Compare earlier orneoscopics n., orniscopist n.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
= orniscopy n.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by birds, augury > [noun]
augurya1413
augurationc1450
ornomancyc1500
auspice1533
auspicy1603
alectromancy1652
ornithomancy1652
alectryomancy1658
bird-divination1670
orneoscopics1727
orniscopics1775
ornithoscopy1840
orniscopy1890
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Orniscopics, the omens or predictions drawn from the observation of birds.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Orniscopics, divination by the observation of fowls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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