Mantic

Pronunciation

• enPR: măn'tÄ­k, IPA: /ˈmæntɪk/
• Rhymes: -æntɪk

Origin

Ancient Greek μαντικός, from μάντις (mantis, "seer, soothsayer"), from μαίνομαι (mainomai, "I am mad, raving").

Full definition of mantic

Adjective

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