Meanings
nounmanticism (plural manticisms)
plural manticisms
- The practice of divination.
It is useless…to go to the manticism of the heathen to get light as to the nature of Hebrew prophecy.
1861, Alexander McCaul, “Prophecy”, essay iii in Aids to Faith, ed. William Thomson, § 1, page 81
Origin
From mantic (“pertaining to divination or prophecy”) + -ism (“tendency of behaviour or action”).
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