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

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

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

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 cleansing odic radiations are almost entirely absent during sickness, therefore complications set in so easily.

From The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Heindel, Max