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odic
UK /ˈəʊdɪk/ US /ˈoʊdɪk/
adj 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
animal, distinct, great, lacking, psychic
VERB + ODIC
designates, writing
ODIC + NOUN
matthew, poems, poetry, stanza, theory
PREP.
from, in
ADV.
only
Definitions
adj
1
Of or pertaining to odes.
The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry.
1964, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Vladimir Nabokov (translator and author of comments), Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, Both the French odic stanza and the EO stanza are related to the sonnet.
adj
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Synonym of odylic (“of or pertaining to the od or odyle (“a hypothetical force or natural power, now proved not to exist, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal mag
Reichenbach has detected, or fancies that he has detected a force, which he designates the odic force, distinct from magnetism and electricity, by which many of the more recondite phenomena of nature are apparently effected.
Such was the origin of the delusions of "animal magnetism," and "odic" and "psychic" force—claims that belong to cerebro-physiology, a department of science that is now but just passing out of the territorial into the organized stage.
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The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry.
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1964, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Vladimir Nabokov (translator and author of comments), Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, Both the French odic stanza and the EO stanza are related to the
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Among all our Victorian poets none is or was so fitted for the writing of odic poems as Matthew Arnold.
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Reichenbach has detected, or fancies that he has detected a force, which he designates the odic force, distinct from magnetism and electricity, by which many of the more recondite phenomena of nature
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Such was the origin of the delusions of "animal magnetism," and "odic" and "psychic" force—claims that belong to cerebro-physiology, a department of science that is now but just passing out of the ter
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With his death, not only the odic theory but the whole conception of animal magnetism would appear to have been buried and forgotten, the only references, as this one from Garrison's History of Medici
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