haruspicy

n. 肠占卜[亦作 haruspication]

发音

/həˈɹʌspɪsi/

词形变化

haruspicies 复数 haruspicies

别名

aruspicy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.

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    That our fates should be made dependent upon the stars, planets, and constellations, however preposterous a conceit, at least imparts a dignity to our nature by conjoining earth with Heaven: but that the doom of kings, empires, and individuals, should be regulated […] by the entrails of victims, as analysed by the butchers of Haruspicy […] is an evidence of stupid credulity that levels civilised man to the savage […]

词源

From Latin haruspicium, from haruspex (“diviner of entrails”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).

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