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Definition of mantic in English: manticadjective ˈmantɪkˈmæn(t)ɪk formal Relating to divination or prophecy. Example sentencesExamples - By watching snakes, Polyidus goes on to divine a way to bring the boy back to life, teaches him his mantic art, and then, as he is leaving Crete, unteaches him by getting him to spit into his mouth.
- If it is not quite the sign of its realisation, the plague-stricken town is the mantic diagram of power through which the Renaissance might glimpse the panoptic society to come.
- While the early Greeks emphasised mantic or inspired behaviour, it was never practised by Romans.
- Suggests that intoxicating nectar may have inspired the mantic states of maenads and the Delphic oracle in ancient Greece.
Synonyms prophetic, predictive, visionary
Origin Mid 19th century: from Greek mantikos, from mantis 'prophet'. Rhymes antic, Atlantic, corybantic, frantic, geomantic, gigantic, necromantic, pedantic, romantic, semantic, sycophantic, transatlantic Definition of mantic in US English: manticadjectiveˈmæn(t)ɪkˈman(t)ik formal Relating to divination or prophecy. Example sentencesExamples - Suggests that intoxicating nectar may have inspired the mantic states of maenads and the Delphic oracle in ancient Greece.
- While the early Greeks emphasised mantic or inspired behaviour, it was never practised by Romans.
- If it is not quite the sign of its realisation, the plague-stricken town is the mantic diagram of power through which the Renaissance might glimpse the panoptic society to come.
- By watching snakes, Polyidus goes on to divine a way to bring the boy back to life, teaches him his mantic art, and then, as he is leaving Crete, unteaches him by getting him to spit into his mouth.
Synonyms prophetic, predictive, visionary
Origin Mid 19th century: from Greek mantikos, from mantis ‘prophet’. |