Stichometry

stichometry

1. Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.

2. Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.

Origin: Gr. A line _ -metry.

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