stichometry
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos, “a row or file of soldiers; a line of poetry, a verse”) + -metry.
Noun
stichometry (countable and uncountable, plural stichometries)
- The measurement of books in terms of how many lines of text they contain.
- The division of the text of a book into lines; a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stichometry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)