stichometry

American  

[sti-kom-i-tree] / stɪˈkɒm ɪ tri /

noun

1. the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.

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stichometry British  

/ stɪˈkɒmɪtrɪ, ˌstɪkəʊˈmɛtrɪk /

noun

1. prosody the practice of writing out a prose text in lines that correspond to the sense units and indicate the phrasal rhythms

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Other Word Forms

• stichometric
  adjective
• stichometrical
  adjective
• stichometrically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of stichometry

1745–55; < Greek stích ( os ) ( see stich ¹) + -o- + -metry

Example Sentences

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stichometry

Matthaei tells us that the manuscript is written in a kind of stichometry by a diligent scribe: its resemblance to Cod.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

The writing is continuous in full line without stichometry.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

However this may be, the original conception doubtless came from the stichometry of Hebrew poetry.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

Such, therefore, we conceive to be the use and design of stichometry, as applied to the Greek Testament by Euthalius59, whose edition of the Acts and Epistles was published a.d.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

B. The stichometry forbids our assigning it to a period earlier than the end of the fifth century while other circumstances connected with the Latin version tend to put it a little lower still.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose