rare. [ad. Gr. *στιχολογία, f. στίχος: see STICHOS and -LOGY.] The science or theory of poetic meters.
1737. E. Manwaring (title), Stichology: or, a recovery of the Latin, Greek and Hebrew numbers.
1895. Lambros, in Athenæum, 6 July, 16/3. His exact acquaintance with Byzantine melody and the Neo-Hellenic stichology.