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mantic

[man-tik] / ˈmæn tɪk /


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In a bouncy, daffy, ro mantic Little Old New York musical Matchmaker Carol Channing juggles lonely hearts and sassily wangles one fo herself.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Miss du Maurier's latest novel lacks the suspense, pageantry and ro mantic insight of Rebecca, French man's Creek or even the recent best-selling House on the Strand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like the British picture, September Affair tells a wistfully ro mantic story of a couple thrown together into what readers of women's-magazine fiction know as a love that can never be.

From Time Magazine Archive

Curtius describes the distinction well in relation to the condition of Greece with which history first presents us:— 'The mantic art is an institution totally different from the priesthood.

From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Walter Bagehot

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

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker




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