Mantic \Man"tic\, a. [Gr. ? prophetic.]
Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one
inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic.
[R.] "Mantic fury." --Trench.
[1913 Webster] manticora
mantichora
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mantic
adj : resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the
high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic
powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and
infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, sibylline,
sibyllic, vatic, vatical]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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