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
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 John Lord
There is something along this road, call it odic force, or what you will.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
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
And, more troubled than the Tower-builders, we understand, one another better than we understand ourselves; again, like "The Charlatan," half odic force, half fraud, who is never so honest as when he confesses himself charlatan.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
