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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Greek mantikos, from mantis Date: 1839 of or relating to the faculty of divination ; prophetic

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. formal of or concerning divination or prophecy. Etymology: Gk mantikos f. mantis prophet

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.