extispicious
English
Etymology
From Latin extispicium + -ous.
Adjective
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, page 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.'
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11: