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

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 Zangwill, Israel

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

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 Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)