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extispicies

extispicies is the plural of extispicy.

Meaning of extispicy

Noun

extispicy (plural extispicies)

  1. (uncountable) Synonym of haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
    • They became experts in what is called extispicy, or the readings of organs of sacrificed animals.2007, Michael O'Neal, J. Sydney Jones, Neil Schlager, Jayne Weisblatt, World religions, volume 1, part 1, page 53
    Synonyms:
    haruspicy
  2. (countable) A specific instance of such divination.
    • This image has been interpreted as the performance of “an extispicy on an animal whose flesh the king will later eat."2010, Ada Cohen, Steven E. Kangas, Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography

Questions about extispicies

What is extispicies the plural of?
Extispicies is the plural of extispicy.

Words near extispicies in the dictionary

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

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