[ad. Gr. στίχ-ος row, line, verse, or the collateral form στίχ-ες (pl.).] A portion or division of prose or verse writing, of a measured or average length; a line, verse.
1723. S. Mather, Vind. Holy Bible, 67. In some ancient Greek New Testaments, at the close of the epistles, there were some numeral letters added, signifying how many Stichs were in the epistle…. The Jewish and Christian writers have computed these Stichs in scripture books, and added them at the end of each book.
1883. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 1955. Trying whether these pauses have a like or symmetrically correspondent number of stichs.
