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 Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

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.

The cleansing odic radiations are almost entirely absent during sickness, therefore complications set in so easily.

From The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Heindel, Max

Actively or passively, consciously or unconsciously, she completes the formula—her "odic force" is the final chemical which permits precipitation.

From The Shadow World by Garland, Hamlin