Meanings
comparative more mantic · superlative most mantic
- Relating to divination; prophetic.
[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
plural mantics
- A soothsayer, a seer.
Surprisingly ignored are Israel’s more momentous earlier prophets or mantic guilds affiliated with Elijah and destined to be transformed into the writing prophets of Judah after 750 […]
1999, The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, →OCLC, page 377
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveresembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
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Origin
- Ancient Greekμαντικός
- Englishmantic
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).
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