Crossword clues for mantic
mantic
The Collaborative International 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, from Greek mantikos "prophetic, oracular, of or for a soothsayer," from mantis "prophet," literally "one touched by divine madness" (see mantis). Related: Mantical (1580s).
Wiktionary
a. Relating to divination; prophetic.
WordNet
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]
Usage examples of "mantic".
Kiutl trances and a careful monitoring of Data-Sync reports had revealed to him who this grin was: a mantic project.
He thought highly of Assia, and yet his mantic capacities urged him to euth Jac.
If only it could have been activatedin what ways would he have differed from a mantic with an ATP-pump in his brain?
Rubeus watched the man stumbling over the ravine rocks, still in his mantic uniform, clumsy with joy.
Adrestus joined by Amphius trim in linen corslet, the two good sons of Merops out of Percote harbor, Merops adept beyond all men in the mantic arts.
Merops out of Percote harbor, Merops adept beyond all men in the mantic arts.
Or for long romantic maneuverings or hurt feelings, lingering hellos or good-byes-most of all, not for the peddling of influence or attempts to push this or that point on him.
For them to renew their vows to one another in the most ro mantic city in the world.
Dekkeret himself had only the most casual interest in the persistence of the mantic arts as a phenomenon of modern culture, and no belief whatever in their predictive value.
Be cautioned, for all true forks and their derivatives are tangled in this mantic root.
Alan Abercrombie, assistant professor of comparative mantics, sleek, blond, handsome, the lion of the tiffins.
I was learned then in science and philosophy, in the history of religions, in inductive and deductive logic, in liver mantic, in the shape and weight of skulls, in pharmacopeia and metallurgy, in all the useless branches of learning which gives you indigestion and melancholia before your time.