Od vs Odic - What's the difference?
od | odic |
(archaic except in dialects) God
An alleged force or natural power, supposed, by Reichenbach and others, to produce the phenomena of mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by magnets, heat, light, chemical or vital action, etc.; — also called odyle or the odylic force.
Of or pertaining to odes.
* 1938 , Mason Long, Poetry and its Forms ,
* 1964 , (translator and author of comments), Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary ,
* 1977 , William Sharp, Studies and Appreciations , page 113,
* 2003 , Harsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire , page 54,
Of or pertaining to od (alleged natural force).
* 1853 , Southern Literary Messenger , Volume 19, page 389,
* 1878 July, , Volume 13,
* 1973 , Aubrey T. Westlake, The Pattern of Health: A Search for a Greater Understanding of the Life Force in Health and Disease , page 32,
As a noun od
is (archaic except in dialects) God.As an initialism OD
is overdose.As a verb OD
is to take an overdose of a drug, to overdose.As an adjective odic is
of or pertaining to odes.od
English
Etymology 1
Alteration of God.Noun
(head)Etymology 2
An arbitrary coinage.Noun
(head)Anagrams
* English two-letter words ----odic
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- The eighteenth century is generally lacking in great odic poetry.
- 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.
- 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.
Etymology 2
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’