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

The epistolary form was as dear to him in prose as the ballad or odic form in verse.

From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.

They alone of all his writings have descended to us, but these, made up as they are of odic fragments, songs, dirges, and panegyrics, show the great excellence to which he attained.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by Lord, John

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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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

From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)