stichometry

(sti kämə trē)

noun

the practice of expressing the successive ideas in a prose composition in single lines of lengths corresponding to natural cadences or sense divisions

Origin: < Gr stichos, a line (see stile) + -metry

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See stichometry in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
The division of a prose piece into lines of fixed length or into lines whose lengths correspond to the natural divisions of sense, as in manuscripts written before the adoption of punctuation.

Origin:

Origin: Greek stikhos, stich; see steigh- in Indo-European roots

Origin: + -metry

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  • stichˌo·metˈric (stĭkˌə-mĕtˈrĭk) adjective
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