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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Composed of verses having the same metrical form.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a verse or line; consisting of verses or lines; linear; specifically, in ancient prosody, composed of lines of the same metrical form throughout: opposed to systematic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing
verse that is not divided intostanzas , but consists oflines all having the same metrical form
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Examples
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Hence in the archetype of our M.T. the stichic writing, known perhaps at an earlier period and used in the later manuscripts, was not applied.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In the case of certain separate books, Hesychius has inaugurated an original stichic division of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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