different between entrails vs anthropomancy

English

Etymology

From Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intr?lia, from Latin inter?nea, from inter?neus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ent?e?lz/

Noun

entrails

1. (archaic) plural of entrail

entrails pl (plural only)

1. The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: bowels, innards, intestines, offal, viscera

2. (obsolete) The seat of the emotions. [14th–18th c.]

Translations

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Entrails”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 221, column 2.

Anagrams

• Latiners, art lines, larnites, latrines, ratlines, retinals, slantier, trainels, trenails

English

Etymology

anthropo- +? -mancy, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ánthr?pos, “man, mankind, human, humanity”) + ??????? (manteía, “divination”).

Noun

anthropomancy (uncountable)

1. divination by the interpretation of human sacrificial entrails.

Synonyms

• antinopomancy

Translations

References

• "Antinopomancy, [sic] by the entrails of men, women and children..." -- Gaule The Magastromancer xix, 1652

  "By anthropomancy, practised by the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus. It is somewhat irksome, but thou wilt endure well enough, seeing thou art destined to be a cuckold." -- Works of Rabelais III. xxv, 1951

• anthropomancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• anthropomancy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• anthropomancy at OneLook Dictionary Search