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Odylic

//ɒˈdɪlɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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.”). historical, not-comparable

    "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."

Etymology

From odyle, odyl + -ic (suffix meaning of or pertaining to forming adjectives from nouns). Odyle, odyl is derived from od (borrowed from German Od, arbitrarily coined by the German scientist and philosopher Carl Reichenbach (1788–1869)) + Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood; material, matter, substance”).

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