Pl. stichoi. [a. Gr. στίχος row, line, verse. Cf. STICH.]
1. In the Greek Church, a verse or versicle.
1863. Littledale, Offices East. Ch., 248. At the Praises, we recite six stichoi.
1868. Walcott, Sacred Archæol., 555. Stichos, a short varying versicle and response in the Greek liturgy…. The koinonikon is a sacramental hymn and stichos, sung a little before the Communion.
2. Palæography. A line of a stichometrically written text; a line of average length assumed in measuring the contents of a text or codex.
1885. G. Salmon, Introd. N. T., xi. 236, note. According to the Stichometry of Nicephorus, it [this Gospel] contained 1300 stichoi.
1911. Jrnl. Manch. Oriental Soc., 2. The amount assigned to a stichos is determined, as in all the old inscriptions, by the sense.
