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Mantis vs Mantic - What's the difference?

mantis | mantic |

As a proper noun mantis

is .

As an adjective mantic is

relating to divination; prophetic.

mantis

English

(wikipedia mantis)

Alternative forms

* mantid

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.

    • Derived terms

    * praying mantis

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    mantic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to divination; prophetic.
  • * 1921 , Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine :
    • [H]e casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.

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