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‖ haruspex|həˈrʌspɛks|
Pl. haruspices |-ɪsiːz|. Also 6–9 aruspex, 7 anglicized as (h)aruspick, -pect.
[L. (h)aruspex, f. a root appearing in Skr. hirâ entrails + L. -spic- beholding, inspecting.]
One of a class of ancient Roman soothsayers, of Etruscan origin, who performed divination by inspection of the entrails of victims, and in other ways.
1584R. Scot Disc. Witchcr. ix. iii. (1886) 138 Another sort of witching priests called Aruspices, prophesied victorie to Alexander, bicause an eagle lighted on his head. c1605Rowley Birth Merl. iv. i. 331 Not an Aruspex with his whistling spells. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 313 Alexander..called his aruspicks to inspect the entrayls. 1741Middleton Cicero I. vi. 454 These terrors alarmed the City, and the Senate consulted the Haruspices. 1879Froude Cæsar xxvi. 458 ‘Am I to be frightened’, he said, in answer to some report of the haruspices, ‘because a sheep is without a heart?’ |