Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to the inspection of entrails for the purpose of divination.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective rare Pertaining to divination by examining entrails.

Etymologies

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From Latin extispicium +‎ -ous.

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  • In one of those marvellous "I don't think we know everything that happens to the information that we generate" moments, taggling pointed me to my extispicious page, presenting a graphical representation of all my del.icio.us tags.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

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