mantic

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or having the power of divination; prophetic.

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  • Sparks flew from the iron and Stormbringer bit into the eunuch's finely edged blade, he staggered and fell back before the nigro- mantic sword which appeared to be endowed with a life of its own.
  • Paul Rudd and Jason Segel (pictured, with Rashida Jones) star in this raw "bro-mantic" comedy, which should be catnip for the fellas out there. —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • Anyway it's never a lush life in a plush room as you two heros know. ever manic the mantic?, edward mycue (for Michael Waggener interested onlooker) —  3quarksdaily
  • The bro-mantic comedy hits cinemas April 17, and follows friendless Peter Klaven as he goes on a series of 'man-dates' to find a Best Man for his upcoming wedding.
  • Hawthorne has revealed that Priscilla is, or rather has been, the fabled "Veiled Lady" of recent renown, whose oracular declamations from the hypnotist's stage supposedly betoken the breaking-in on mundane reality of Transcendental powers, but in the mantic exertions of whose performance Coverdale belatedly perceives only so much "humbug at the bottom" indicating that "the soul of man is descending to a lower point than it has ever reached." —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Greek mantikos, from mantis, seer; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek μαντικύς, of a diviner or prophet, prophetic, from μάντις, a diviner, seer, prophet: see Mantis.
 

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