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单词 exta
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extan.

/ˈɛkstə/
Etymology: Latin exta in same sense.
See quot. 1884; spec. (Historical) the entrails of a victim from which auguries were taken by soothsayers.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [noun] > entrails so used
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1665 J. Spencer Disc. Vulgar Prophecies 23 Diviners by the Smoke, the Exta, the Incense on the Altar.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Exta, the Bowels or Entrails of an Animal Body.
1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 152 None of the ‘exta’, however favourable they might have been, were of the slightest avail.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Exta, the viscera of the chest, originally. Also, occasionally used for the abdominal viscera, especially the bowels.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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