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Meanings of mantic in English

Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.

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Examples for "sibylline"
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They knew well that sibylline look on the face of Miranda Brown.
The Summons
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All right, when you get on these sibylline airs, I say no more.
Cæsar or Nothing
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At length the temple was destroyed by fire, and the original sibylline books perished.
Michelangelo / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait o...
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The governess, who was clever, studied Cæsar's hand and expressed herself in sibylline terms:
Cæsar or Nothing
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He wrote to congratulate him, and Perrotin thanked him in a few prudent and sibylline words:
Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War
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See chapter 20 for the general divinatory meanings of this card.
Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot
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This is a good blend to use to consecrate and charge your divinatory tools.
Wicca Spellcraft For Men
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She'd consulted it, the divinatory deck, the astrological signs, everything.
Orb Sceptre Throne
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It was an ancient artefact of the divinatory Dragons Deck.
Orb Sceptre Throne
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Geomantic Figures: There are sixteen geomantic figures which, in a divinatory operation, are randomly generated.
Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot
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When Obama gets her to recount family history, she is a vatic presence.
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
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The plotline about western powers scrabbling for resources in the Middle East seems horribly vatic.
The Guardian
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He smiled at her with his vatic calm.
Iron Council
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But his simple speech hid vatic power.
Autobiography of a Yogi
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It flashes from casual naturalism to gory horror, from game playing to terrible earnest, from the vatic to the casual.
The Guardian
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She stayed, however, in Paris, which she apostrophises with Sibyllic candour:-
Masques & Phases
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64. sibyllic: usually "sibylline," prophetic; from "sibyl."
Selections from Poe
Usage of mantic in English
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Would the mantic sight have faded on its own soon enough?
Sister of the dead
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Wynn forgot nausea and vertigo and everything else that plagued her mantic sight.
Sister of the dead
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She felt it move like the black ribbons Wynn had seen with her mantic sight.
Sister of the dead
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London's workforce barely registered this mantic transformation.
The water room
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Of them, only a few can learn the proper mantic skills to amount to anything as an adept.
The Great Book of Amber
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He was almost certain the ring helped Welstiel to hide his presence from mantic and divinatory magics-orunnatural senses, such as those of other undead.
Sister of the dead
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No one has ever poured such satire upon the mantic arts as did Rabelais in chapter twenty-five of the third book of "Pantagruel."
The Evolution of Modern Medicine / A Series of Lectures Delivere...
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'The mantic art is an institution totally different from the priesthood.
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the pri...
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"Wynn saw you in her mantic sight, " Leesil said to the dog.
Sister of the dead
Mantic through the time