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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Synonyymit

Ääntäminen

    • IPA: /həˈɹʌspɪsi/
KieliKäännökset
italiaaruspicina, aruspicio, estispicio
latinaharuspicium

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.

Esimerkit

  • Different kinds of divination, which have passed for sciences, we have had: [...] 6. Haruspicy, by inspecting the bowels of animals. [...]
  • That our fates should be made dependent upon the stars, planets, and constellations, however preposterous a conceit, at least imparts a dignity to our nature by conjoining earth with Heaven: but that the doom of kings, empires, and individuals, should be regulated [...] by the entrails of victims, as analysed by the butchers of Haruspicy [...] is an evidence of stupid credulity that levels civilised man to the savage [...]

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkoharuspicies (harvinainen)

Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.

Diagram of the sheep's liver found near Piacenza with Etruscan inscriptions on the bronze sheep's Liver of Piacenza

Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.

Akkadian language clay sheep liver models written in a local dialect, recovered from the palace at Mari, dated to the 19th or 18th century BCE.

Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.

Diagram of the bronze liver of Piacenza