a. [f. prec. + -AL.] Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by measurement by stichoi or lines.
1845. W. Wright, in Kitto, Cycl. Bibl. Lit., s.v. Vulgate (1849), II. 926/1. The beautiful Lindisfarne book of the Gospels (Nero D. 4) is a stichometrical uncial MS. of the seventh century.
1885. G. Salmon, Introd. N. T., xxi. 537, note. Then follows a stichometrical catalogue of the books both of Old and New Testament.
1904. M. Rule, in Athenæum, 9 April, 464/3. I find … upon making a careful stichometrical analysis of the Libellus, that it resolves itself into thirty-eight sections.
1909. Times Lit. Suppl., 11 Feb., 52/2. The stichometrical note in the margin of Frag. 58.
Hence Stichometrically adv.
1871. G. V. Smith, Bible & Pop. Theol., App. 320. The six clauses may be arranged stichometrically.
1882. G. C. Macaulay, in 19th Cent., Dec., 908. Passages from this preface have been introduced word for word, or with insignificant changes, into subsequently published poems, being divided stichometrically into lines by the natural pauses of the sentence.
1882. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 268. Written stichometrically, i. e., in single lines containing only so many words as could be read, consistently with the sense, at a single inspiration.
