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tetrastich Pros.|ˈtɛtrəstɪk, tɪˈtræstɪk|
Also 7–9 teˈtrastic(h)on, (pl. -a); 7–8 tetrastic, -sticke, 7–9 -stick.
[ad. L. teˈtrastichon a quatrain, a. Gr. τετράστιχον, neut. of τετράστιχος containing four rows, f. τετρα- tetra- + στίχος row, line of verse. Cf. F. tétrastiche, -ique.]
A stanza of four lines.
1580Spenser Let. to Harvey Wks. (Globe) App. ii. 709/1 Here I let you see my olde use of toying in Rymes turned into your artificial straightnesse of Verse by this Tetrasticon. 1625Ussher Answ. Jesuit 325 Therefore doth Theodorus Prodromus begin his Tetrastich upon our Saviours Resurrection. 1702Burlesque of R. L'Estrange's Vis. Quev. 62 What Man though always in the Pouts The following Tetrastick doubts? 1779Johnson L.P., Milton Wks. II. 92 Selvaggi praised him in a distich, and Salsilli in a tetrastick: neither of them of much value. 1824Johnson Typogr. I. 330 The last page, on which are an Epistle and Tetrastichon in Roman. 1865R. Palmer Bk. Praise 489 The two tetrastichs composing the first stanza are transposed.
Hence teˈtrastichal, tetraˈstichic adjs., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a tetrastich, or consisting of tetrastichs; teˈtrastichism, the formation of tetrastichs.
1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1955 The alphabetical psalm (xxxvii)..is almost entirely tetrastichic. 1890G. Bickell in Athenæum 22 Nov. 700/3 There are hexastichic strophes throughout Prov. xxx..and tetrastichic ones in i. 7–ix. 18. 1895Q. Rev. Jan. 128 A tetrastichal metre should be chosen. 1898R. Ellis in Classical Rev. XII. 120 The process which Rutherford..aptly calls tetrastichism, i.e. reduction of a larger original to a total of four verses. |