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HARUSPICY
Definition of HARUSPICY
noun
Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
HARUSPICY carries 3 further meanings.
noun
Same as haruspication. Also aruspicy. See haruspex.
noun
The art or practices of haruspices. See aruspicy.
noun
The study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
Where it comes from
From Latin haruspicium, from haruspex (“diviner of entrails”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HARUSPICY · 1 relative in the game
HARUSPICY in a sentence
“However I have a fresh entry just itching to be written about the Etruscan Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a sheep's liver created for the ritualistic practice called haruspicy in order to divine the future.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HARUSPICY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 114 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HARUSPICY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACHIPRSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of HARUSPICY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start HARUSP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
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