Definitions for haruspex

haruspex ha·rus·pex

Spelling: [huh-ruhs-peks, har-uh-speks]
IPA: /həˈrʌs pɛks, ˈhær əˌspɛks/

Haruspex is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 282 anagrams from letters in haruspex (aehprsux).

Definitions for haruspex

noun

  1. (in ancient Rome) one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.

Origin of haruspex

1575-85; Latin, equivalent to haru- (akin to hīra intestine; see chord1) + spec- (stem of specere to look at) + -s nominative singular ending

Examples for haruspex

"He is indispensable to us at this time," said the haruspex.

The haruspex submitted, though deeply vexed, and asked whether the guilty boys were also to go unpunished.

Manlius assisted in bringing the animals selected for victims to the haruspex.

The haruspex ordered that the "ill-used man" should be set at liberty.

During this speech the haruspex had frequently shrugged his shoulders.

Cato, the Censor, is on record as saying "that he wondered how one haruspex could look another in the face without laughing!"

"So long as you are our leader, certainly," cried the haruspex.

Thereupon, Roman haruspex looked into the eyes of Roman haruspex, and they both laughed.

No Etruscan haruspex or Roman augur could wish for clearer omens: it reads like a page of Livy.

Word Value for haruspex
Scrable

20

Words with friends

21

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