mantic

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

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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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It was through mantic art that he came to his conception of love.

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