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What does haruspication mean?

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Noun
  1. The act or practice of divination from the entrails of animals slain in sacrifice.
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Haruspication has died out more completely than almost any magical rite.
The examination of the liver of a sacrificed sheep, haruspication, was learnt from the Mesopotamians.
Haruspication was at first adopted by the Romans but later fell into disrepute.
The Babylonians claimed that haruspication was the invention of the gods, and that the passions were housed not in the heart, but the liver.

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