Complete Definition of "mantic"

English
Pronunciation
IPAchar|m�n'tĭk, /�mæntɪk/, /<tt>"m{ntIk</tt>/
:IPAchar|Rhymes:English:-æntɪk|Rhymes: -æntɪk
Adjective
mantic

  1. relating to divination; prophetic

#*1921: Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine - [H]e 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.

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