Word Meanings - HARUSPICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.
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- DIVINER
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one - ANCIENTNESS
The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times. - ANCIENTLY
1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner. - DIVINERESS
A woman who divines. Dryden. - ANCIENTRY
1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller. - ANCIENT
1. Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, - ANCIENTY
1. Age; antiquity. Martin. 2. Seniority. - HARUSPICE
A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.