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Mantic Oedipus Adj Relating Divination Prophecy Related Mancy

Word mantic
Definition adj. Relating to divination or prophecy. (related to -mancy, e.g. necromancy, geomancy)
Sentence So I beg you, grudge us nothing now, no voice, no message plucked from the birds, the embers or the other mantic ways within your grasp.
Source Oedipus to Tiresias, Oedipus Rex, l. 352–354

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