Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or practice of prognosticating by the inspection of the entrails of animals slain in sacrifice; divination.
Wiktionary
- n. divination, fortune-telling, by reading the entrails of animals (a practice of Ancient Rome).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See haruspicy.
Examples
“The Romans had their Sybilline books and their Etruscan custom of haruspication (divination from entrails).”
“Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.”
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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tomladams's Words
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