manticism
nounUK /ˈmæntɪsɪzm/
Etymology From mantic (“pertaining to divination or prophecy”) + -ism (“tendency of behaviour or action”).
1
The practice of divination.
- It is useless…to go to the manticism of the heathen to get light as to the nature of Hebrew prophecy.1861, Alexander McCaul, “Prophecy”, essay iii in Aids to Faith, ed. William Thomson, § 1, page 81