Odic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈəʊdɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Odic is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to odes.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to odes.
More Meanings
- (pseudoscience, 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.”)”)
Example Sentences
The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry.
Among all our Victorian poets none is or was so fitted for the writing of odic poems as Matthew Arnold.
In the odic tradition, the poet's visionary authority deriving from God or the muses would invariably be juxtaposed alongside the power of the emperor or empress, and the imperial state.
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.
Synonyms for odic
Depending on context, synonyms include odylic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lyrical, incandescence, odal, choric, odonatological, obitual.
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