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Mantic

//ˈmæntɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    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 […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

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