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Definition: ARUSPEX |
ARUSPEXNoun1. One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods. |
Etymology: Aruspex \A*rus"pex\, noun; plural Aruspices. [Latin expression aruspex or haruspex.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Oracle | Noun: oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer, witch, geomancer, aruspex; aruspice, haruspice; haruspex; astrologer, star gazer; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer; interpreter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ARUSPEX |
| English words defined with "ARUSPEX": Aruspice, Aruspices. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ARUSPEX": Aruspice. (references) |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ARUSPEX": haruspex. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ARUSPEX" (pronounced 'A*rus"pex'): Apex. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-p-r-s-u-x" | |
-1 letter: auspex, pareus, pauser, praxes. | |
-2 letters: apers, apres, asper, aures, pares, pareu, parse, pause, paxes, pears, prase, praus, presa, purse, rapes, raxes, reaps, spare, spear, sprue, super, supra, urase, ureas, ursae, xerus. | |
-3 letters: aper, apes, apex, apse, ares, arse, axes, ears, eaux, eras, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, prau, prex, pure, purs, rape, raps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-p-r-s-u-x" | |
+1 letter: haruspex, supertax. | |
+3 letters: expurgates, parasexual, supertaxes. | |
+4 letters: expurgators, hypersexual. | |
+5 letters: auxotrophies, expurgations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 52 55 53 50 45 58 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. ..- ... .--. . -..- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010010 01010101 01010011 01010000 01000101 01011000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A R U S P E X |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0052 0055 0053 0050 0045 0058 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35525553503958 |
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