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aruspex

aruspex is the alternative form of haruspex.

Meaning of haruspex

Noun

haruspex (plural haruspices)

  1. A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced haruspicy, divination by inspecting entrails.
    • If it be lawfull for Panæcius to maintaine his judgement about Aruspices, Dreames, Oracles and Prophecies[…]: Wherfore shall not a wise-man dare that in all things, which this man dareth in such as he hath learned of his Masters?1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of aruspex

pluralaruspices

Questions about aruspex

What is aruspex the alternative form of?
Aruspex is the alternative form of haruspex.

Words near aruspex in the dictionary

  1. arupite
  2. arura
  3. aruras
  4. arusa
  5. arusha
  6. aruspex
  7. aruspice
  8. aruspices
  9. aruspicy
  10. arustle
  11. Arutyunyan

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