odic
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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
"Your scientific people would call this an exhibition of odic force, Brown--eh?"
From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
The epistolary form was as dear to him in prose as the ballad or odic form in verse.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull
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 Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
Even this idea is not unknown above ground, though it has generally been confined to enthusiasts or charlatans, and emanates from confused notions about mesmerism, odic force, &c.
From The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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