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mantic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈmantɪk/ (UK)
• mănʹtĭk
• /ˈmæntɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

Meanings

1. Relating to divination; prophetic.
   • [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. 1921, Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine:

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manticism

mantic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmantɪk/ (UK)
• mănʹtĭk
• /ˈmæntɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

Meanings

1. A soothsayer, a seer.
   • Surprisingly ignored are Israel’s more momentous earlier prophets or mantic guilds affiliated with Elijah and destined to be transformed into the writing prophets of Judah after 750 […] 1999, The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, →OCLC, page 377:

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