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.

There is something along this road, call it odic force, or what you will.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

"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)

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