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extispex

extispex noun: somebody who predicts the future using entrails.

Noun

extispex (plural extispices)

  1. (historical) Somebody who predicts the future using entrails
    • The Aruspices, or rather Haruspices, were those priests whose chief business it was to inspect the entrails of beasts offered in sacrifice; and hence they were sometimes called extispices.1836, Thomas Swinburne Carr, A manual of Roman antiquities, page 30
    • As the same person might be both extispex and fulgurator, it is not astonishing to find them both called haruspices.1854, Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Outlines of the Philosophy of Universal History: Christianity and Mankind, Their Beginnings and Prospects

Forms of extispex

pluralextispices

Origin of extispex

From Latin extispex.

Questions about extispex

What does extispex mean?
Extispex means somebody who predicts the future using entrails.
What part of speech is extispex?
Extispex is a noun.
What is the plural of extispex?
The plural of extispex is extispices.

Words near extispex in the dictionary

  1. extirped
  2. extirper
  3. extirpers
  4. extirping
  5. extirps
  6. extispex
  7. extispices
  8. extispicies
  9. extispicious
  10. extispicy
  11. extodomain

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