extispicy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice. uncountable
    — They became experts in what is called extispicy, or the readings of organs of sacrificed animals.
  2. A specific instance of such divination. countable
    — This image has been interpreted as the performance of “an extispicy on an animal whose flesh the king will later eat."

词形变化

extispicies plural

词源

From Latin extispicium, from extispex (“diviner of entrails”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).
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