odic

Of or pertaining to odes.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to odes.
    • The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry. - 1938, Mason Long, Poetry and its Forms:
    • 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.
    • Among all our Victorian poets none is or was so fitted for the writing of odic poems as Matthew Arnold. - 1977, William Sharp, Studies and Appreciations, page 113:

Origin

From ode + -ic.

Forms

more odic most odic

Adjective pseudoscience

  1. 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...
    • 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...
    • 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 Medicine, being of a...

    Synonyms: odylic

Origin

From od + -ic, modelled after German odisch.

Forms

more odic most odic

Related

od odylic odyllic odylism odylist odism

Derived

odically