extispicy

noun /ɛkˈstɪspɪsi/

1. A specific instance of such divination.

   countable

   This image has been interpreted as the performance of “an extispicy on an animal whose flesh the king will later eat."

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry extispicy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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