Monday, August 15, 2011

mantic

mantic \MAN-tik\, adjective:

1. Of or pertaining to divination.
2. Having the power of divination.

"She spent some evenings secretly working to expand the ever-present taint of the mantic sight still trapped within her."
-- Barb Hendee, J. C. Hendee, In Shade and Shadow
"It is these mantic responses that alert the intelligence to the presence of something that calls for interpretation."
-- M. R. Wright, Andrew Barker, Reason and Necessity: Essays On Plato's Timaeus
Mantic stems from the Greek mantikos, "of a soothsayer."

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