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Mantic

adjective
1.
Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.  Synonyms: divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical.  "Mantic powers" , "A kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"






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"Mantic" Quotes from Famous Books



... self-possession, few or none. And too long were it to speak of the Sibyl, and others, who, inspired and prophetic, have delivered utterances beneficial to the hearers. Indeed, this word phrenetic or maniac is no reproach; it is identical with mantic—prophetic.[966] And often when diseases and plagues have fallen upon men for the sins of their forefathers, some phrensy too has broken forth, and in prophetic strain has pointed out a remedy, showing how the sin might be expiated, and the gods appeased (by prayers, ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker



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