a. [ad. Gr. στιχικ-ός, f. στίχος: see STICH, STICHOS.]

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  1.  Pertaining to or consisting of verses or lines.

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1864.  Webster.

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1883.  Jebb, Œdipus Tyrannus, p. lxxii. When twa rhythmical sentences of equal length correspond to each other, they form a ‘stichic’ period.

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1897.  W. H. Stevenson, in Eng. Hist. Rev., XII. 490. Coote completed Palgrave’s stichic re-arrangement of the text.

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  2.  Prosody. Consisting of successive lines of the same metrical form.

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1886.  Amer. Jrnl. Philol., VII. 399. The stichic portions of the cantica of Terence are divided into strophes.

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1900.  H. W. Smyth, Greek Melic Poets, 219. Lesser Asclepiads in stichic arrangement.

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  So Stichical a. = prec. 1.

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1787.  A. Geddes, Let. Bp. London, 43. No one will … assert the same of any stichical version made from the Hebrew.

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