odic
Americanadjective
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Another poem revels in smashing words and consonants together to find language for the delight of a demolition derby, its four-beat lines breaking forcefully against the syntax of its odic lists:
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2016
Under the deceptive beauty of some of their apparitions, they might find some day the sylphs and fair undines of the Rosicrucians playing in the currents of psychic and odic force.
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
In the glance which Paul gave Flamby there was something odic and strange.
From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax
There is something along this road, call it odic force, or what you will.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.
The physiology, the anthropology of the Bible, is highly odic, and must be studied as such.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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