† mantisticadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Of or relating to divination or prophecy; = mantic adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination > [adjective]
divinal?1504
divinatory1569
mantical1588
semantic1665
mantic1839
mantistic1876
1876 A. Wilder Knight's Symbolical Lang. Anc. Art & Mythol. 141 An idea of peculiar spiritual or mantistic qualities supposed to be peculiar to the female sex.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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adj.1876- to have a routine down pat
- to have a routine off pat
- to have a routine pat
- to have a run for one's money
- to have a run-in
- to have a run-in with
- to have a runin
- to have a runin with
- to have a saying to
- to have a scantling of
- to have a scent
- to have a screw
- to have a screw at
- to have a screw loose
- to have a see
- to have a serve of
- to have a set on
- to have a set on a person
- to have a share in
- to have a sheep's eye
- to have a shit
- to give faith to
- to give faith unto
- to give fidelity
- to give fifteen, etc, and a bisque