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

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

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)

The text of this MS. appears to be like 169, and is excellent in the Romans, mixed in the other Epp.; there is an interesting stichometry; examined by Berger.

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

It is in the Peshito or old Syriac version, Eusebius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Epiphanius, the 60th of the Laodicean canons, Athanasius, Gregory of Nazianzus, Amphilochius, the stichometry of Nicephorus, the MSS. א.

From The Canon of the Bible by Davidson, Samuel

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