odic

[oh-dik]

adjective

1. of an ode.

Other Word Forms

• odically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of odic¹

First recorded in 1860–65; ode + -ic

Example Sentences

An antiques dealer by trade, with an enigmatic and captivating daughter named Isis, the bespectacled Klaw sleeps at the scene of a mystery and while dreaming on his “odic pillow” perceives the truth about seemingly impossible events.

From Washington Post

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

"Your scientific people would call this an exhibition of odic force, Brown--eh?"

From Project Gutenberg

Odic Lights: Od, the name given by Reichenbach to an influence he believed he had discovered; it was held to explain the phenomena of mesmerism, and to account for the luminous appearances at spirit-rapping circles.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg