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Meaning of MANTIC

Pronunciation:  'mantik

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [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"
 
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 Synonyms: divinatory, prophetic, prophetical, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 

 

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