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Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls. Fry. Bullantic letters, Gothic letters used in papal bulls.

A song; esp. a little song or hymn. [Obs.] Bacon.

A social gathering; usually, one for dancing.

A cock, so called from the clearness or loundness of his voice in crowing.

Of or pertaining to chiromancy.

On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. Macaulay. -- Fran"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Fran"tic*ly, adv. Shak. -- Fran"tic*ness, n. Johnson.

of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal.

Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.

Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox. Longfellow.

Bulky, big. [Obs.] Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.

The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant. Hallam.

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Of or pertaining to divination by water.

Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.

One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.

the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic. [R.] "Mantic fury." Trench.

Conjuration. [R.] With all the necromantics of their art. Young.

Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.