extispicious
Pertaining to divination by examining entrails.
Adjective
- Pertaining to divination by examining entrails.
- Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his Auguriall and Extiſpicious inventions, from caſuall and uncontrived contingences divining events ſucceeding. Which Tuſcan ſuperſtition ſeaſing upon Rome hath ſince poſſeſſed all...
- 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.' - 2010, Louise Pattern, Bad Money, page 113:
Origin
From Latin extispicium + -ous.