What does extispex mean?
Extispex means (historical) Somebody who predicts the future using entrails.
Extispex
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Extispex is a noun meaning (historical) Somebody who predicts the future using entrails.
Meaning
(historical) Somebody who predicts the future using entrails.
Example Sentences
As the same person might be both extispex and fulgurator, it is not astonishing to find them both called haruspices.
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.
A further function of sacrificial integration illustrates another significance of the extispex for the confirmation of the political hierarchy and, above all, of the Roman emperor and his communication with the gods.
The Sun-god was believed to have arranged the entrails of the sacrificial lamb in such a way that they would indicate to men the will of the gods, and, moreover, that he set marks upon them which could not be mistaken by the skilled extispex.
Word Forms
- extispices
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include auspice, espial, vaticine, stranger, spial, telopsis.
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How do you use extispex in a sentence?
As the same person might be both extispex and fulgurator, it is not astonishing to find them both called haruspices.
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