Odic

/ˈəʊdɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to odes..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or pertaining to odes.
2. (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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 disparaging nature: ‘The whole subject was exploited in various mystic forms ... by Baron von Reichenbach, whose concept of odic force still survives in ouija boards and odic telephones.’

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