1850 J. Ashburner in tr. K. L. F. Reichenbach Physico-physiol. Res. Dynamics of Magn. Pref. 11 The establishment of the existence of the odic force is that which was wanting to reply to most of the questions respecting life.

1853 Ladies' Repository Dec. 544/2 The phenomena can not be accounted for by the odic force or any other natural power with which I am acquainted.

1869 Punch 21 Aug. 68/1 The magnetic or odic lights which Reichenbach photographed.

1895 E. S. Phelps Chapters from Life vii. 131 That odic force whose mysterious existence science cannot deny, and speculation would not.

1926 Amer. Mercury July 327/1 Odic force and animal magnetism contended for favor.

1976 Christian 3 117 Those healers of a more occult frame of mind believe that some definite healing force emanates from their hands... A non-material ‘odic force’ or ‘radiesthetic force’ is postulated by this type of practitioner.

2001 ReVision (Electronic ed.) 1 Apr. Baron von Reichenbach thought that the ‘odic force’ could be transmitted and used therapeutically.

1863 W. Barnes in Macmillan's Mag. May 36 That the dramatic and odic poetry of the Greeks..was a natural growth from the song-dances of savage life.

1873 G. G. McCrae Man in Iron Mask ii. 57 The courtly, elegiac schools, The odic bards, all worship here.

1929 A. T. Quiller-Couch Poems 121 O moons of man! A Spirit moves upon the middle deeps, And all their odic tides acclaim the Babe!

1961 Mod. Lang. Notes 76 230 In a form suggesting a highly irregular odic structure, each motif becomes dominant during two phases of the poem.

1991 Slavic Rev. 50 928 The practice of producing poetic collections..was not revived until the early 1750's, when the odic environment was breaking down.