Mantic in a sentence as an adjective

It’s funny that in neither paper was there ever an attempt to just try the stuff and, you know, attempt mantic divination. What has science come to?

Mantic definitions

adjective

resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"

See also: divinatory sibylline sibyllic vatic vatical