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EXTISPICIOUS

Definition: EXTISPICIOUS

EXTISPICIOUS

Adjective

1. Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Extispicious \Ex`ti*spi"cious\, adjective. [Latin expression extispicium an inspection of the inwards for divination; extra the entrails specer to look at.]. (references)

Synonyms within Context: EXTISPICIOUS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Prediction	Ominous, portentous, augurous, augurial, augural; auspicial, auspicious; prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Anagrams: EXTISPICIOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-i-o-p-s-s-t-u-x"
	-2 letters: isopiestic.
	-3 letters: piosities.
	-4 letters: coexists, coituses, exposits, soupiest, specious, spiciest.
	-5 letters: cesspit, coexist, cosiest, coxitis, cutises, exotics, exposit, ictuses, piceous, piteous, poetics, potsies, poussie, septics, sexpots, sixties, sopites, suspect.
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Alternative Orthography: EXTISPICIOUS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 58 54 49 53 50 49 43 49 4F 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011000 01010100 01001001 01010011 01010000 01001001 01000011 01001001 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

E X T I S P I C I O U S

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0054 0049 0053 0050 0049 0043 0049 004F 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

395854435350433743495553

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