aruspice

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ARUS'PICE, noun Written also haruspice. [Latin aruspex, or haruspex, a soothsayer, or diviner, who attempted to foretell events by consulting the entrails of beasts slain in sacrifice.] A priest, in ancient Rome, whose business was to inspect the entrails of victims, killed in sacrifice, and by them to foretell future events.
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