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• mantic
  mantic

  adjective

  of or relating to divination.
• -mantic
  -mantic

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

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

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mantic

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

No one has ever poured such satire upon the mantic arts as did Rabelais in chapter twenty-five of the third book of "Pantagruel."

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by William Osler

Test my mantic gifts at any other point and I doubt not I can satisfy you.

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd