odic

Adjective (1)

odic (comparative more odic, superlative most odic)

1. Of or pertaining to odes.
   • The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry.1938, Mason Long, Poetry and its Forms
   • Both the French odic stanza and the EO stanza are related to the sonnet.1964, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Vladimir Nabokov (translator and author of comments), Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary

Adjective (2)

UK/ˈɒdɪk/US/ˈɑdɪk/

odic (comparative more odic, superlative most odic)

1. (historical) 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 magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.”)”)
   • 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.1853, Southern Literary Messenger, volume 19, page 389
   • 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.1878 July, George Miller Beard, The Scientific Study of Human Testimony, Part III, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 13

   Synonyms:

   odylic