different between entrail vs extispicy

English

Etymology 1

en- +? trail

Verb

entrail (third-person singular simple present entrails, present participle entrailing, simple past and past participle entrailed)

1. (archaic) To interweave or bind.
   • 1598, William Cecil, letter to his son, reprinted in Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion^[2], 1824, by John Strype, page 479,

     Trust not any with thy life, credit, or estate: for it is mere folly for a man to entrail himself to his friend; as though, occasion being offered, he shall not dare to become his enemy.
2. (heraldry) To outline in black.

   A cross entrailed.

   • 1847, Henry Gough, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table ..., Oxford, Page 124,

     "Entrailed: outlined, always with black lines. See Adumbration, and Cross entrailed."

   • 1775, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry: Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules ..., H. Washbourne, Page 122,

     "Entrailed, a Cross, P.7, n.20, Lee says, the colour need not be named, for it is always sable."

Etymology 2

From Middle English entraille, from Old French entraille (compare modern French entrailles), from Late Latin intr?lia, modification of Latin intr?nea, contraction of inter?neum (“gut, intestine”), substantive of inter?neus (“internal, inward”).

Noun

entrail (plural entrails)

1. (usually used in the plural) singular of entrails; an internal organ of an animal.
2. (archaic) Entanglement; fold.

Synonyms

• innard, gut, tharm, intestine

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Anagrams

• -traline, Latiner, art line, larnite, latrine, line art, ratline, reliant, retinal, trainel, trenail

English

Etymology

From Latin extispicium.

Noun

extispicy (plural extispicies)

1. (uncountable) Haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
   • 2007, Michael O'Neal, J. Sydney Jones, Neil Schlager, Jayne Weisblatt, World religions, volume 1, part 1, page 53

     They became experts in what is called extispicy, or the readings of organs of sacrificed animals.

   • 2004, Cristiano Grottanelli, Lucio Milano, Food and Identity in the Ancient World

     ... to avoid wasting the enormous amounts of carcasses that in Mari, as elsewhere in Mesopotamia, were the products of the frequent killing of animals, almost exclusively sheep, for extispicy and omen taking.

2. (countable) A specific instance of such divination.
   • 2010, Ada Cohen, Steven E. Kangas, Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography

     This image has been interpreted as the performance of “an extispicy on an animal whose flesh the king will later eat."

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