Word Meanings - ARUSPICY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

Related words: (words related to ARUSPICY)

• SACRIFICE
  1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
• ENTRAILS
  interaneum, pl. interanea, intestine, interaneus inward, interior, 1. The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines. 2. The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails
• SACRIFICER
  One who sacrifices.
• INSPECTION
  1. The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation. Spenser. With narrow search, and with inspection deep, Considered every creature. Milton. 2. The act
• PROGNOSTICATION
  1. The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction. 2. That which foreshows; a foretoken. Shak.
• PURSLAIN
  See PURSLANE
• REINSPECTION
  The act of reinspecting.
• SELF-SACRIFICE
  The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.