Definition of Stichoi

1. stichos [n] - See also: stichos

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stichoi

stibonium
sticcado
sticcados
sticcato
sticcatos
stich
sticharia
sticharion
sticharions
stiched
stichera
sticheron
stichic
stichidia
stichidium
stichoi (current term)
stichomancy
stichometrical
stichometries
stichometry
stichomythia
stichomythias
stichomythic
stichomythies
stichomythy
stichos
stichs
stichtite
stick
stick-and-carrot

Literary usage of Stichoi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Commentary on the Psalms from Primitive and Mediæval Writers: And from the by John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale, Miles Coverdale (1879)
"I cannot help giving, as the best commentary on this part of the Psalm,- the stichoi of Great Thursday with their ..."

2. History of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament by Eduard Reuss (1884)
"The stichoi were numbered and summed up at the end of each book, as was done in the Hebrew Bible also. Yet it is still a question whether these ..."

3. The Coptic version of the New Testament in the northern dialect, otherwise by George William Horner (1905)
"T the number of its stichoi hundred five and twenty, and its chapters six. ... I. Ep. ends with ' Was finished the second epistle of Peter, its stichoi ..."

4. A History of the Holy Eastern Church by John Mason Neale (1850)
"It frequently happens that proper stichoi are given in the ... The number of stichoi varies; when any are given in the ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... and stichoi, the Nunc dimittis, the trisagion, and the apolytikion. Greater Vespers, which are said after sunset, begin with the invitatory, ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The and 1600 stichoi, the last testified by Septuagint a number of manuscripts, for which Text the number of the corresponding im- Shorter proved text is ..."

7. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1852)
"The stichoi, however, not only assisted the public reader f the New Testament to determine its sense ; they also erved to measure the size of books ; thus, ..."

8. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1840)
"At the end of each manuscript it was usual to specify the number of stichoi which it contained. When a copyist was disposed to contract his space, ..."

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