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Odylic

Odylic \O*dyl"ic\, a. (Physics) Of or pertaining to odyle; odic; as, odylic force. [Archaic]

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a. (context archaic English) Of or pertaining to odyle; odic.

Usage examples of "odylic".

Scholar carried one whole specimen into the deckhouse as a subject for odylic dissection.

Carlotta also kept looking back, along the way they had come, while Arnobius rarely glanced up from his table of what he preferred to call not magic but odylic computations.

Academy had undergone a notable expansion in recent times, as a direct result of the new stirrings in the world of magic, the profession of odylic science.

Academy, the Scholar sent him to the library with a note addressed to one of the archivists asking if a particular old manuscript, dealing with the origins of odylic science, was available.

A third opinion held both to be branches of odylic science, by which the ancients had managed to transform the world.

Every serious student of odylic philosophy knew that Coyote was the premier shape changer and it could have been anyone under that outward appearance of Carlotta.

Scholar, if he could ever grow wise enough to understand, would call the Faces triumphs of engineering with the odylic force.

And from time to time he noticed that Carlotta also kept looking back, along the way they had come, while Arnobius rarely glanced up from his table of what he preferred to call not magic but odylic computations.

A god or goddess, after all, was no more than a human being who had put on one of the ancient and indestructible Faces loaded with odylic magic.

As matters actually stood, the odylic force that had made the creature huge and formidable operated also to keep it alive, though caged and bound.

There was no odylic magic about this creature, but mere nature could sometimes be quite monstrous enough.

The material of the Thrones strongly resembled that of other ancient odylic devices I had encountered recently.

He, or it, was neither beast, god, nor human, but rather an artifact of the mysterious odylic process.

Though the Boar and Hydra, and the sea monster that had almost eaten the Trojan princess, were of course of different species than the Giants, they, too, were designed creatures, incorporating odylic magic.

The maid on learning of the contemplated project in odylic magic was not surprised.