"haruspicy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1825, Horace Smith, Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries, Volume II, H. Colburn, page 333",
          "text": "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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        "Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice."
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          "word": "hepatomancy"
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          "english": "haruspicy using livers",
          "word": "hepatoscopy"
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