odic

== English == === Etymology 1 === From ode +‎ -ic. ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊdɪk/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈoʊdɪk/ ==== Adjective ==== odic (comparative more odic, superlative most odic) Of or pertaining to odes. 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. === Etymology 2 === From od +‎ -ic, modelled after German odisch. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒdɪk/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑdɪk/ Rhymes: -ɒdɪk Hyphenation: od‧ic ==== Adjective ==== odic (comparative more odic, superlative most odic) (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.”)”) 1878 July, George Miller Beard, The Scientific Study of Human Testimony, Part III, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 13: 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. ===== Derived terms ===== odically ===== Related terms ===== od odylic, odyllic odylism odylist odism === References === === Further reading === Odic force on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === coid