mantic
Collocations
3ADJ.
earlier
MANTIC + NOUN
arts, guilds, pyromancy
PREP.
from, with
Definitions
adj
Relating to divination; prophetic.
[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.
noun
A soothsayer, a seer.
Surprisingly ignored are Israel’s more momentous earlier prophets or mantic guilds affiliated with Elijah and destined to be transformed into the writing prophets of Judah after 750 […]
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
- divinatory
- sibylline
- sibyllic
- vatic
- vatical
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
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2[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 necro
WiktionarySurprisingly ignored are Israel’s more momentous earlier prophets or mantic guilds affiliated with Elijah and destined to be transformed into the writing prophets of Judah after 750 […]
Wiktionary