What's the difference between entrail and haruspication?

Entrail


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To interweave; to intertwine.
  • (n.) Entanglement; fold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The finfish livers and entrails were macerated in a Duall tissue grinder containing acetonitrile followed by partitioning of the Kepone into benzene.
  • (2) Weights of the different commercial parts of the animal such as head, ducts, bacon, skin and main organs (entrails) were taken from sacrificed hogs (carcass).
  • (3) And in a pointed a slap back at Brandis, he said: “Lawyers will always have a lot of views on a lot of things going into the entrails on these sorts of things.
  • (4) Indeed, he said, there would be “very few Australians” who would not be proud to stand next to such shoulders, but alas “the entrails of his schedule” meant his time spent in proximity to Hastie’s shoulders was limited.
  • (5) I’m still faithful to Hannibal , but there are only so many times you can watch someone cook a nice brunch with human entrails before it gets a tad repetitive.
  • (6) She gets nothing but sycophancy from her privy counsellors, so why not ask those paid to watch the entrails of the sacred geese, the economists?
  • (7) It tasted as you might imagine licking the slime off a fish that has been left to fester in a warm room for three days might taste; it had the tang of bilge and entrail.
  • (8) The farmer and his children crowd around; a girl of seven or eight stirs a pot on an open fire and, in the dust, chickens fight over the entrails of a ram left over from Eid, its head still lolling in the dirt.
  • (9) Scratch tests with different fish products (fish juice from fillets, meat (fillet), skin, slime, juice from fish boxes and hold in the fishing boats, and entrails) were performed in 145 volunteers.
  • (10) The corpses, meanwhile, had bloated and burst in the heat, their entrails seeping out, tongues oozing from faces.
  • (11) But the entrails of the leak are less important than the issue it raises.
  • (12) Nowhere in the new advert do we see the blood and entrails, the vomit and faeces, the rats feasting on body parts.
  • (13) Under optimal conditions, the degrees of tyrosine-desulfation of [35S]sulfate-labeled fibronectin by arylsulfatases from Helix pomatia (Type H-1), Patalle vulgata (Type V) and Abalone entrails (Type VIII) were determined to be 55.7%, 54.9% and 76.4%.
  • (14) The nation examines the entrails of heirs to the throne, actors and London mayors.
  • (15) So those of us engaged in this strange spectator-sport are driven to reading stock-market analysts' reports and other ephemera, which is the technological equivalent of consulting the entrails of recently beheaded chickens.
  • (16) The formation of the above mentioned organic compounds is associated with volcanic processes--with abiogenous synthesis taking place in ash-gas clouds and, possibly, in the entrails of the Earth (hydrocarbons and their heteroatomic derivatives have also been found in volcanic bombs).
  • (17) Sulphatase preparations from Abalone entrails, the limpet Patella vulgata and ox liver, as well as artificial substrates for these enzymes, were used in the hamster in vitro fertilization system to study the possible roles of sperm sulphatases in sperm-zona pellucida interactions.
  • (18) No hydrolysis of the sulphate metabolite occurred on treatment with aryl sulphatase from (a) Helix pomatia, (b) limpets and (c) Aerobacter aerogenes, while treatment with aryl sulphatase from abalone entrails led to very slow hydrolysis.
  • (19) Mr Justice Macpherson, the trial judge, said after yesterday's verdicts: "It seems to me that maybe the public and certainly those involved on the legal side would not wish to gaze at the entrails of the case further."
  • (20) He seems in later life to have found some sort of serenity, underpinned by the Stoic philosophy which, superbly stated, ends Satire X : Still, if you must pray for something, if at every shrine you offer The entrails and holy chitterlings of a white piglet Then ask for a healthy mind in a healthy body, Demand a valiant heart for which death holds no terrors, That reckons length of life as the least among the gifts Of nature, that's strong to endure every kind of sorrow, That's anger free, lusts for nothing, and prefers The sorrows and labours of Hercules to all Sardanapulus' downy cushions and women and junketings.

Haruspication


Definition:

  • (n.) See Haruspicy.

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