Odontic
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Pronounced: oh-don-tik
-adjectiveTo utilize petty, ostentatious rhetoric
inadequate attempt to simplify a complex issueroot: odon (having no rhetorical teeth)
od- a hypothetical force formerly held to [pervade] all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc. ([1840]–50; arbitrary name coined by Karl von [Reichenbach]: Odic Force also called Od)
-ontic from Gk. ont- , comb. form of on (gen. ontos ) being, [prp]. of einai to be
antonym: odont (having teeth) -
Of or relating to the teeth, or a tooth.
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