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Webster 1913 Edition
Mantic
Man′tic
,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.
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mantic
mantic
See also: -mantic
English
Adjective
mantic (comparative more mantic, superlative most mantic)
- 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.
- 1921, Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine: