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extispicy

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extispicy
haruspicy. — extispex, n. — extispicious, Obsolete, adj.
See also: Animals
haruspicy. — extispex, n.extispicious, adj.
See also: Divination


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The word "inaugural", it seems, originates in the extispicy of chicken: "ave" is bird, and "auvger" the reader of the signs.
It, the ultimate tragedy, was surely all there constellated in the participants' nativities; all there for the scrying - the extispicy - in the wire-snared cony.
 
 
 
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