haruspex

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haruspex englanniksi

  1. A soothsayer or priest in Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced haruspicy, divination by inspecting entrails.

  2. (RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes): Wherfore shall not a wise-man dare that in all things, which this man dareth in such as he hath learned of his Masters?

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  4. diviner who reads from the intestines of sacrificial animals; one who practices haruspicy.

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