haruspex

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  1. noun A priest in ancient Rome who practiced divination by the inspection of the entrails of animals.

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  • That he was superstitious like a genuine soldier of fortune; that he was induced to become a candidate for his first consulship, not by the impulse of his talents, but primarily by the utterances of an Etruscan -haruspex-; and that in the campaign with the Teutones a Syrian prophetess Martha lent the aid of her oracles to the council of war,--these things were not, in the strict sense, unaristocratic: in such matters, then as at all times, the highest and lowest strata of society met. —  The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)
  • But open thine ears, O haruspex, and all you others too shall hear. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • Paaker's gifts can no more be pleasing to the Celestials than a cask of attar of roses would please thee, haruspex, in which scorpions, centipedes, and venomous snakes were swimming. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
  • I looked up haruspex too, but when I read the meaning, I had heard of ... —  Via Negativa
  • QC: Raspberry-Latte, haruspex, darynrose —  Tokyo Toshokan
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  1. Latin; see gherə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, also written, less correctly, aruspex, literally inspector of entrails, from haru- = Sanskrit hira, entrails (akin to χολάδες, entrails, χορδή, gut (later ult. English cord, chord, q. v.), and to English yarn, q. v.), + specere, view, inspect: see species, spectacle, etc. Cf. Latin hariolus, a soothsayer, a word containing the same element haru-: see hariolation.
 

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