mantic

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Google inherits the narrative of the priestly class that discerns the universe, renders order out of chaos, answers our entreaties, and invites us to take part in mantic acts of divination.

From Salon

Mary says he's 'mantic like, as she calls it, but I don't believe it's no sich thing.

From Project Gutenberg

The "glossolaly" was inarticulate and unintelligible; it was a feature of Greek "mantic," an accompaniment of over-strained emotion, and even to be produced by material agencies, as Plutarch lets us see.

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There is nothing peculiar in the office of soothsayer that accompanied the Dionysiac cult; mantic persons and procedures have formed a prominent part of the constitution of the lower peoples everywhere.

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Indeed, this word phrenetic or maniac is no reproach; it is identical with mantic --prophetic.

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