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mantic

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mantic (comparative more mantic, superlative most mantic)

  1. 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.

Derived terms

  • manticism

Noun

mantic (plural mantics)

  1. A soothsayer, a seer.

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mantit

English

Etymology

man +? tit

Pronunciation

Noun

mantit (plural mantits)

  1. (slang, vulgar, sometimes humorous) A man's breast, pectoral, or nipple

Translations

Anagrams

  • titman

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