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Webster 1913 Edition


Mantic

Man′tic

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Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] prophetic.]
Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic.
[R.]
Mantic fury.”
Trench.

Definition 2024


mantic

mantic

See also: -mantic

English

Adjective

mantic (comparative more mantic, superlative most mantic)

  1. Relating to divination; prophetic.
    • 1921, Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine:
      [H]e casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.

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