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extispicious

extispicious adjective: pertaining to divination by examining entrails.

Adjective

extispicious (comparative more extispicious, superlative most extispicious)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to divination by examining entrails.
    • Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his Auguriall and Extiſpicious inventions, from caſuall and uncontrived contingences divining events ſucceeding. Which Tuſcan ſuperſtition ſeaſing upon Rome hath ſince poſſeſſed all Europe.1650, Thomas Browne, “A Further Illustration”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 33
    • Spider had even laughed out loud when Guy chipped in with one of his obscure jokes. 'Given the amount of offal he got through, one might say that he was extispicious.'2010, Louise Pattern, Bad Money, page 113

Forms of extispicious

comparativemore extispicious
superlativemost extispicious

Origin of extispicious

From Latin extispicium + -ous.

Questions about extispicious

What does extispicious mean?
Extispicious means pertaining to divination by examining entrails.
What part of speech is extispicious?
Extispicious is an adjective.

Words near extispicious in the dictionary

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

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