"extispicy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Michael O'Neal, J. Sydney Jones, Neil Schlager, Jayne Weisblatt, World religions, volume 1, part 1, page 53",
          "text": "They became experts in what is called extispicy, or the readings of organs of sacrificed animals.",
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          "text": "... 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.",
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        "(countable) A specific instance of such divination."
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