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mantic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective mantic has 1 sense
- mantic(s = adj.all) divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical - resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
CIDE DICTIONARY
mantic, a. [Gr. prophetic.].
Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic. Trench. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mantic, adj. formal of or concerning divination or prophecy.
Etymology
Gk mantikos f. mantis prophet
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