haruspice

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HAR'USPICE,noun [Latin haruspex, from specio, to view.] In Roman history, a person who pretended to foretell future events by inspecting the entrails of beasts sacrificed, or watching the circumstances attending their slaughter, or their manner of burning and the ascent of the smoke.
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