Definition of odylic force. Meaning of odylic force. Synonyms of odylic force

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Definition of odylic force

odylic force
Od Od, n. [G., fr. Gr. ? passage.] (Physics) 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.; -- called also odyle or the odylic force. [Archaic] That od force of German Reichenbach Which still, from female finger tips, burnt blue. --Mrs. Browning.

Meaning of odylic force from wikipedia

- Odic force (also called Od /oʊd/, Odyle, Önd, Odes, Odylic, Odyllic, or Odems) was a hypothetical vital energy or life force believed by some in the mid-19th...
- less than the odylic force of Baron Carl Reichenbach, as the French writer [Levi] himself admits substantially, [...]" and: "This force he [Levi] usually...
- Odic force (also Od, Odyle, Önd, Odes, Odylic, Odyllic, Odems), the name given in the mid-19th century to a hypothetical vital energy or life force by Baron...
- the "communicat[ion of] any surcharge of a magnetic, odylic, electric, or vital fluid or force, from [the operator's] own body to that of the patient"...