haruspex

In ancient times, there would have been some official haruspex charged with picking over the entrails of a sacrificial offering ahead of any important occasion.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2010

Manlius assisted in bringing the animals selected for victims to the haruspex.

From A Christian But a Roman by Mór Jókai

Cato, the Censor, is on record as saying "that he wondered how one haruspex could look another in the face without laughing!"

From Wind and Weather by Alexander McAdie

Even Cato,91 the leader of the orthodox, national, and conservative party, expressed his surprise that a haruspex, when meeting a colleague, did not burst out laughing.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

The haruspex put the smoking mass in his hands.

From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan

Hence his every action is scrutinized and picked to bits, as Etruscan haruspices once examined sacrificial livers for a sign of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his character of Pontifex Maximus he restored pagan temples, and directed that the haruspices should be consulted.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

The altar had been erected, the swine sacrificed, and the augurs and haruspices on both sides had predicted nothing but amity and concord.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

There were augurs and haruspices to discover the will of the gods, according to entrails and the flight of birds.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

Cæsar was also cautioned by the haruspices, by a dream of his wife, and by his own forebodings, which we have no reason for doubting.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne