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 curves of their astral selves were sweeping inward to a point of contact which Paul knew subconsciously would be electric, odic, illuminating.

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.

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

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax