Noun: extispicy
| Singular | extispicy |
| Plural | extispicies |
Sample Sentences
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They became experts in what is called extispicy, or the readings of organs of sacrificed animals. [2007, Michael O'Neal, J. Sydney Jones, Neil Schlager, Jayne Weisblatt, World religions, volume 1, part 1, page 53:]
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... to avoid wasting the enormous amounts of carcasses that in Mari, as elsewhere in Mesopotamia, were the products of the frequent killing of animals, almost exclusively sheep, for extispicy and omen taking. [2004, Cristiano Grottanelli, Lucio Milano, Food and Identity in the Ancient World:]
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This image has been interpreted as the performance of “an extispicy on an animal whose flesh the king will later eat." [2010, Ada Cohen, Steven E. Kangas, Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography:]
Nouns inflected like extispicy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin extispicium, from extispex (“diviner of entrails”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns). See: Latin Nouns '
extispicium'.