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

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 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)

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

They alone of all his writings have descended to us, but these, made up as they are of odic fragments, songs, dirges, and panegyrics, show the great excellence to which he attained.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by Lord, John