Definition of "haruspices" [haruspices]

• Plural form of haruspex. (noun)

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• "Animal entrails, for example, were believed to contain obscure messages from the gods, requiring the practice of haruspices for their decipherment."
• "So it seems reasonable to presume that, where it regards the specialty of divination, notoriously considered Etruscan by even fellow Romans who employed Etruscan haruspices, there should be few if any xenonyms for the native Etrurian pantheon."
• "They listen with confidence to the predictions of haruspices, who pretend to read in the entrails of victims the signs of future greatness and prosperity; and there are many who do not presume either to bathe or to dine, or to appear in public, till they have diligently consulted, according to the rules of astrology, the situation of Mercury and the aspect of the moon."