different between cantic vs mantic

English

cantic (not comparable)

Ancient Greek ???????? (mantikós), from ?????? (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from ???????? (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).

enPR: m?n?t?k:
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mænt?k/
  - Rhymes: -ænt?k
- (UK) IPA^(key): /?mant?k/

mantic (comparative more mantic, superlative most mantic)

Relating to divination; prophetic.
- 1921, Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine:
  [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.

mantic (plural mantics)

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