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mantistic

mantistic is the alternative form of mantic.

Meaning of mantic

Adjective

mantic (comparative more mantic, superlative most mantic)

  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.1921, Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine

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Forms of mantistic

comparativemore mantistic
superlativemost mantistic

Questions about mantistic

What is mantistic the alternative form of?
Mantistic is the alternative form of mantic.

Words near mantistic in the dictionary

  1. mantispid
  2. mantispids
  3. mantissa
  4. mantissae
  5. mantissas
  6. mantistic
  7. mantit
  8. mantits
  9. Mantjiltjara
  10. mantle
  11. mantle field

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