Haruspicy

Quick meaning: Haruspicy is a noun meaning Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.

Meaning

Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.

Example Sentences

Different kinds of divination, which have passed for sciences, we have had: […] 6. Haruspicy, by inspecting the bowels of animals. […]

That our fates should be made dependent upon the stars, planets, and constellations, however preposterous a conceit, at least imparts a dignity to our nature by conjoining earth with Heaven: but that the doom of kings, empires, and individuals, should be regulated […] by the entrails of victims, as analysed by the butchers of Haruspicy […] is an evidence of stupid credulity that levels civilised man to the savage […]

Word Forms

• haruspicies

Synonyms for haruspicy

Depending on context, synonyms include extispicy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spatulomancy, spatulamancy, augury, theriomancy, zoomancy, zoolatry.

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