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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

extispicium

an inspection of the inwards for divination;

extra

the entrails +

specer

to look at.]

Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.

[Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

extispicious ‎(comparative more extispicious, superlative most extispicious)

(rare) Pertaining to divination by examining entrails.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11:
  Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his Augurial and Extispicious inventions, from casual and uncontrived contingencies divining events succeeding.
- 2010, Louise Pattern, Bad Money, p. 113:
  Spider had even laughed out loud when Guy chipped in with one of his obscure jokes. 'Given the amount of offal he got through, one might say that he was extispicious.'