manticn.

Brit.

/ˈmantɪk/, U.S.

/ˈmæn(t)ɪk/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: Greek μαντική , μαντικός , mantic adj.

Etymology: In sense 1 ultimately < ancient Greek μαντική, use as noun (short for μαντικὴ τέχνη mantic art) of the feminine of μαντικός mantic adj. In sense 2 < mantic adj.In quot. 1727 at sense 1 perhaps after Middle French mantice (1578, in an isolated occurrence) or post-classical Latin mantice (1267 in a British source); in quot. 1891 at sense 1 translating German Mantik (feminine).

†1. The art or practice of divination; = manticism n. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun]

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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mantice, divination or foretelling things to come.]

1891 B. S. Colyer-Fergusson tr. P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye Man. Sci. Relig. xvi. 137 The history of religion is full of mantic.

1893 Philos. Rev. 2 224 Man is therefore by his nature fitted to recognize through observation this causal rule of God, and in some measure to predict its course. This he does either by means of science or of divination (mantic).

2. A person who practises the art of divination.

ΚΠ

1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 477/1 ‘To utter cries, and make more or less wild gestures’, like the pagan mantics.

1964 R. Graves Man does, Woman Is 39 A college of gowned mantics Who still cast horoscopes only by stars.

1999 Britannica Online (Version 99.1) at Prophecy Divinatory prophets include seers, oracle givers, soothsayers, and mantics (diviners), all of whom predict the future or tell the divine will in oracular statements.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

manticadj.

Brit.

/ˈmantɪk/, U.S.

/ˈmæn(t)ɪk/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μαντικός.

Etymology: < ancient Greek μαντικός prophetic, oracular < μάντις prophet, diviner (cognate with mania n., the original sense evidently being ‘person inspired by a divine frenzy’: compare Herodotus Hist. 4. 79 ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ μαίνεται , to be inspired by the god) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French mantique (c1891; earlier as isolated attestation in Middle French, 1587). Compare earlier mantical adj.

Of or relating to divination or prophecy; prophetic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adjective]

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [adjective]

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1839 T. Mitchell in Aristophanes Frogs 55 The word belongs to the mantic art,..and, as a partaker in that art, Bacchus may here be supposed to use it with an assumption of some dignity.

1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 161 I fixed the various rules of mantic art.

1858 R. C. Trench Synonyms New Test. (1876) vi. 21 Revelation knows nothing of this mantic fury.

1895 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 15 7 In the Homeric Hymn to Hermes we get a seeming personification of mantic bees in the neighbourhood of Delphi.

1924 Glasgow Herald 20 Mar. No attempt is made to render the famous anapaests of the Parabasis, and the mantic hexameters of the Prophet are ignored.

1955 G. Gorer Exploring Eng. Char. xiv. 267 Where men claim to be fortune-tellers they are liable to use at least two of the techniques mentioned; women are more likely to be satisfied with a single mantic medium.

1989 G. Steiner Real Presences iii. v. 211 That which earlier vocabularies and thought-systems referred to as the daimon, as the mantic breath of strangeness which speaks through the rhapsode.

Derivatives

ˈmantically adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adverb]

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mantically1903

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [adverb]

mantically1903

1903 Expositor Apr. 288 There is not a scrap of evidence to show that the bishops of Asia..accused the Montanists of being mantically inclined.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mantic
释义	manticn. Brit. /ˈmantɪk/, U.S. /ˈmæn(t)ɪk/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: Greek μαντική , μαντικός , mantic adj. Etymology: In sense 1 ultimately < ancient Greek μαντική, use as noun (short for μαντικὴ τέχνη mantic art) of the feminine of μαντικός mantic adj. In sense 2 < mantic adj.In quot. 1727 at sense 1 perhaps after Middle French mantice (1578, in an isolated occurrence) or post-classical Latin mantice (1267 in a British source); in quot. 1891 at sense 1 translating German Mantik (feminine). †1. The art or practice of divination; = manticism n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [noun] divinec1330 diviningc1340 divinationc1374 divinailc1386 sortilegea1387 sortilegya1387 divinity1481 matesy1543 divinement1579 divinesse1594 predivination1603 observating1652 sortiary1653 fatidicency1693 fatiloquency1693 mantology1774 manticism1861 zoomancy1888 mantic1891 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mantice, divination or foretelling things to come.] 1891 B. S. Colyer-Fergusson tr. P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye Man. Sci. Relig. xvi. 137 The history of religion is full of mantic. 1893 Philos. Rev. 2 224 Man is therefore by his nature fitted to recognize through observation this causal rule of God, and in some measure to predict its course. This he does either by means of science or of divination (mantic). 2. A person who practises the art of divination. ΚΠ 1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 477/1 ‘To utter cries, and make more or less wild gestures’, like the pagan mantics. 1964 R. Graves Man does, Woman Is 39 A college of gowned mantics Who still cast horoscopes only by stars. 1999 Britannica Online (Version 99.1) at Prophecy Divinatory prophets include seers, oracle givers, soothsayers, and mantics (diviners), all of whom predict the future or tell the divine will in oracular statements. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). manticadj. Brit. /ˈmantɪk/, U.S. /ˈmæn(t)ɪk/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μαντικός. Etymology: < ancient Greek μαντικός prophetic, oracular < μάντις prophet, diviner (cognate with mania n., the original sense evidently being ‘person inspired by a divine frenzy’: compare Herodotus Hist. 4. 79 ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ μαίνεται , to be inspired by the god) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French mantique (c1891; earlier as isolated attestation in Middle French, 1587). Compare earlier mantical adj. Of or relating to divination or prophecy; prophetic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adjective] witiec897 weirdc1400 propheticalc1450 propheticc1484 vaticinant1490 fatal?1504 spaeing?a1505 vaticinal1587 mantical1588 vatical1594 vatic1603 fatidical1608 vaticinating1634 fatiloquent1656 vaticinian1656 fatidic1671 fateful1720 vaticinatric1729 seer-like1816 mantic1839 fatidicating1867 vaticinatory1883 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [adjective] divinal?1504 divinatory1569 mantical1588 semantic1665 mantic1839 mantistic1876 1839 T. Mitchell in Aristophanes Frogs 55 The word belongs to the mantic art,..and, as a partaker in that art, Bacchus may here be supposed to use it with an assumption of some dignity. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 161 I fixed the various rules of mantic art. 1858 R. C. Trench Synonyms New Test. (1876) vi. 21 Revelation knows nothing of this mantic fury. 1895 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 15 7 In the Homeric Hymn to Hermes we get a seeming personification of mantic bees in the neighbourhood of Delphi. 1924 Glasgow Herald 20 Mar. No attempt is made to render the famous anapaests of the Parabasis, and the mantic hexameters of the Prophet are ignored. 1955 G. Gorer Exploring Eng. Char. xiv. 267 Where men claim to be fortune-tellers they are liable to use at least two of the techniques mentioned; women are more likely to be satisfied with a single mantic medium. 1989 G. Steiner Real Presences iii. v. 211 That which earlier vocabularies and thought-systems referred to as the daimon, as the mantic breath of strangeness which speaks through the rhapsode. Derivatives ˈmantically adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adverb] propheticallyc1429 vatically1641 fatidically1693 mantically1903 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [adverb] mantically1903 1903 Expositor Apr. 288 There is not a scrap of evidence to show that the bishops of Asia..accused the Montanists of being mantically inclined. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : -manticcomb. form < n.1891adj.1839 see also
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