Odylic

Quick meaning: Odylic is an adjective meaning (pseudoscience, historical) 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.”).

Meaning

(pseudoscience, historical) 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

A bundle of bars or of horse-shoes, placed with like magnetic poles in contact, has its odylic poles reversed, so as to alternate with each other.

I believe it is the odylic vapour which has been attached to seeds found in the case of a mummy, which, after 3,000 years, makes that seed germinate.

One of the most important modifications of the original theory of the magnetic fluid was instituted in the forties by the Baron Carl von Reichenbach who renamed it the Odylic Force and incorporated it into an esoteric lore of poles and passes in which a number of secondary polarities in the human body were postulated, […]

The odylic light generally confines itself to more or less luminous spots, e.g., around the finger-tips, the eyes, the mouth, the solar plexus, etc., but does not generally appear as a complete aura surrounding the body at a distance from it, except to more clairvoyant people who are said to be able to see this light, in both light and darkness, in the form of an aura with the ordinary colours, red on the left side and blue on the right.

Word Forms

• odyllic

Synonyms for odylic

Depending on context, synonyms include odic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include odyllic, odic, odonatological, omenic, odal, otopathic.

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