mantic

¹ American  

[man-tik] / ˈmæn tɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to divination.

2. having the power of divination.

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-mantic ² American  

1. a combining form used in the formation of adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -mancy:

   necromantic.

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mantic ¹ British  

/ ˈmæntɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to divination and prophecy

2. having divining or prophetic powers

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-mantic ² British  

combining form

1. forming adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -mancy

   necromantic

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Other Word Forms

• mantically adverb

Etymology

Origin of mantic

First recorded in 1580–90, mantic is from the Greek word mantikós of a soothsayer, prophetic. See mantis, -ic

Example Sentences

In a bouncy, daffy, ro mantic Little Old New York musical Matchmaker Carol Channing juggles lonely hearts and sassily wangles one fo herself.

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But Miss du Maurier's latest novel lacks the suspense, pageantry and ro mantic insight of Rebecca, French man's Creek or even the recent best-selling House on the Strand.

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Most of his poems are personal�neither jeweled cenotaph nor mantic dispatches from a muse, but gifts of self.

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Like the British picture, September Affair tells a wistfully ro mantic story of a couple thrown together into what readers of women's-magazine fiction know as a love that can never be.

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His mantic function does not necessarily show that he was a ghost.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris