Definition for HAR'US-PICE

HAR'US-PICE, n. [L. haruspex, from specio, to view.]

In Roman history, a person who pretended to fortell future events by inspecting the entrails of beasts sacrificed, or watching the circumstances attending their slaughter, or their manner of burning and the ascent of the smoke. Encyc. Adam.

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