mantic
adjective
of or relating to divination.
mantic
1 American
[man-tik]
/ ˈmæn tɪk /
adjective
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of or relating to divination.
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having the power of divination.
-mantic
2
American
mantic
1
British
/ ˈmæntɪk /
adjective
-
of or relating to divination and prophecy
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having divining or prophetic powers
-mantic
2
British
combining form
Other Word Forms
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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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
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
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
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
Curtius describes the distinction well in relation to the condition of Greece with which history first presents us:— 'The mantic art is an institution totally different from the priesthood.
From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Bagehot, Walter
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