Definition of Stichos

1. a line of a manuscript [n STICHOI]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stichos

stichera
sticheron
stichic
stichidia
stichidium
stichoi
stichomancy
stichometrical
stichometries
stichometry
stichomythia
stichomythias
stichomythic
stichomythies
stichomythy
stichos (current term)
stichs
stichtite
stick
stick-and-carrot
stick-fighting
stick-in-the-mud
stick-in-the-mud(p)
stick-in-the-muds
stick-on
stick-tight
stick-tights
stick-to-it-iveness
stick-to-itiveness
stick 'em up

Literary usage of Stichos

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

1. The Divine Liturgies of Our Fathers Among the Saints John Chrysostom and by Orthodox Eastern Church (1894)
"stichos. And unto the ages of the ages. On the Third-day, and the Fifth-day: Alleluia, thrice. ... stichos. Into all the world hath their sound gone out. ..."

2. A History of the Holy Eastern Church by John Mason Neale (1850)
"So in the. feast of S. Marina, the first stichos is Bav/Jiao-Tos 6 ... given for the stichos in the Monica, as was the case in the day I gave from it at p. ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"That the term stichos deflects in the direction of hexameter verse as against any other line of poetry which might have been chosen for a proper unit of ..."

4. A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre: An Elementary Treatise by William Henry Cobb (1905)
"But perhaps not; for it may be fairly replied that while the stichos cannot ... Just because it expects its complement, the stichos is to be multiplied, ..."

5. A Commentary on the Psalms: From Primitive and Mediaeval Writers and from by John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale (1869)
"stichos 1. Hath GOD forgotten to he gracious : and will He shut up His ... stichos 3. I will remember the works of the LOBD : and call to mind Thy wonders ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1911)
"The term stichos is of itself extremely vague. ... But in literature it is easy to ameter demonstrate that the stichos is de- Line. ..."

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