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

In the glance which Paul gave Flamby there was something odic and strange.

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax

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

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