haruspex
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In ancient times, there would have been some official haruspex charged with picking over the entrails of a sacrificial offering ahead of any important occasion.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2010
The haruspex put the smoking mass in his hands.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
Thereupon, Roman haruspex looked into the eyes of Roman haruspex, and they both laughed.
From The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin
Even Cato,91 the leader of the orthodox, national, and conservative party, expressed his surprise that a haruspex, when meeting a colleague, did not burst out laughing.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
It was a case where neither could say anything to the other, though Cato might wonder quod non rideret haruspex, haruspicem cum vidisset.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton
Hence his every action is scrutinized and picked to bits, as Etruscan haruspices once examined sacrificial livers for a sign of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
The altar had been erected, the swine sacrificed, and the augurs and haruspices on both sides had predicted nothing but amity and concord.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
In their heart of hearts, all knew that they were concoctions, and the haruspices laughed when they met each other.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
Evolution, 259.Etruscan haruspices, 31.Eve, stature of, 107.Evil eye, 69.Evolution and dogma, 220.—— cosmic, 258.—— ethical, 258.—— inclusion of man in, 245.—— inorganic, 175.—— organic, 200.Evolution and Ethics, Huxley on, 219, 254.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
From Etruria was introduced the art of the haruspices, or soothsayers, which consisted in discovering the divine mind by the appearance of victims slain for the sacrifices.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
