odic
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Hamlin Garland
Under the deceptive beauty of some of their apparitions, they might find some day the sylphs and fair undines of the Rosicrucians playing in the currents of psychic and odic force.
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
"Your scientific people would call this an exhibition of odic force, Brown--eh?"
From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
