odontic
pr-nounced: oh-don-tik
-adjective
1. to utilize petty, ostentatious rhetoric
2. inadequate attempt to simplify a complex issue
root: 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)
during an october 2010 debate for a delaware us senate seat christine o’donnell made the odontic statement: “where in the const-tution is separation of church and state?”
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