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单词 od force
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Od force
1. A hypothetical force proposed by Baron Karl von Reichenbach as pervading all nature and accounting for various physical and psychological phenomena (also called odyle: see odyle n.). Frequently attributive, esp. as Od force.The Od force was thought to manifest itself in certain persons of sensitive temperament by streaming from their fingertips, and to be exhibited especially by magnets, crystals, heat, light, and chemical action. It was held to account for the phenomena of mesmerism and animal magnetism, among other things.
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1846 W. Gregory in tr. K. L. F. Reichenbach Abstr. of Res. Magn. vi. 89 The author has given to the new imponderable the name of Od, a name not possessing any meaning, but admitting of being compounded, according to the genius of the German language.
1850 J. Ashburner tr. K. L. F. Reichenbach Physico-physiol. Res. Dynamics of Magn. 224 I will take the liberty to propose the short word Od for the force which we are engaged in examining. Every one will admit it to be desirable that a unisyllabic word beginning with a vowel should be selected..for the sake of convenient conjunction in the manifold compound words.
1851 H. Mayo On Truths Pop. Superstitions (ed. 2) 13 To his new force..Von Reichenbach..gave the arbitrary but convenient name of Od, or the Od force.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 295 That od-force of German Reichenbach Which still from female finger-tips burns blue.
1885 H. S. Olcott Theosophy 212 So much of light is let into the old domain of Church ‘miracles’ by mesmerism and the Od discovery.
1937 Sci. Monthly June 494/2 The claims of Baron Reichenbach, a distinguished chemist, to the discovery of another new force which he named ‘Od’, which..was found to have positive and negative qualities and to behave differently for different metals, etc.
1972 Amer. Q. 24 492 While American scientific journals ignored Reichenbach's findings, Od managed to get tremendous amounts of publicity in the press and elsewhere.
1991 P. Heselton Elements of Earth Mysteries (BNC) 33 Von Reichenbach..published the results of numerous experiments with sensitives using techniques which enabled them to sense an energy which he called ‘the odic force’, ‘od’ or ‘odyle’.
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