mantic
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See also: -mantic
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
mantic (comparative more mantic, superlative most mantic)
- Relating to divination; prophetic.
- 1921, Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine:
- [H]e casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.
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Noun[edit]
mantic (plural mantics)
- A soothsayer, a seer.