Entrails vs Extispicious - What's the difference?
entrails | extispicious |
(archaic)
(plural only, uncountable) The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
*
(rare) Pertaining to divination by examining entrails.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
* 2010 , Louise Pattern, Bad Money , p. 113:
As a noun entrails
is plural of lang=en.As an adjective extispicious is
pertaining to divination by examining entrails.entrails
English
Noun
(head)Synonyms
* (internal organs) bowels, innards, intestines, offal, visceraAnagrams
*extispicious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his Augurial and Extispicious inventions, from casual and uncontrived contingencies divining events succeeding.
- 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 .'
