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Deity vs Hepatoscopy - What's the difference?

deity | hepatoscopy |

As nouns the difference between deity and hepatoscopy

is that deity is the state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead while hepatoscopy is (rare) divination by the liver of an animal or bird the liver was divided into sections, each section representing a deity, and the markings in these zones were important a form of aruspicy.

deity

English

(wikipedia deity)

Noun

(deities)
  • The state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
    • Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee .
  • A divine being; a god or goddess.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * household deity

    Related terms

    * deicide * deify

    See also

    * cosmocrat * deism * god * godliness * theism

    References

    Anagrams

    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    hepatoscopy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hepatomancy

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) Divination by the liver of an animal or bird. The liver was divided into sections, each section representing a deity, and the markings in these zones were important. A form of aruspicy.
  • * 1973 Collier's Encyc. x.
    • Hepatomancy...animal livers