mantic

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈmæntɪk/
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/ˈmæntɪk/ · /ˈmantɪk/(UK)

Definition of mantic

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
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adj

  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.”

noun

  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 […]”

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Etymology

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

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