different between extispicy vs haruspicy

English

From Latin extispicium.

extispicy (plural extispicies)

(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.
(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."

From Latin haruspicium

haruspicy (countable and uncountable, plural haruspicies)

The study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
- 1807, Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary, Volume 1, Whitehall, page 238:
  Different kinds of divination, which have passed for sciences, we have had: […] 6. Haruspicy, by inspecting the bowels of animals. […]
- 1825, Horace Smith, Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries, Volume II, H. Colburn, page 333:
  That our fates should be made dependent upon the stars, planets, and constellations, however preposterous a conceit, at least imparts a dignity to our nature by conjoining earth with Heaven: but that the doom of kings, empires, and individuals, should be regulated […] by the entrails of victims, as analysed by the butchers of Haruspicy […] is an evidence of stupid credulity that levels civilised man to the savage […]

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