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octastich|ˈɒktəstɪk| Also 6–9 in Gr. form octastichon, 7 octo-, octastick. [ad. Gr. ὀκτάστιχ-ος of eight verses (στίχος row, line).] A group of eight lines of verse.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 922/2 When I. Leland the famous antiquarie wrote this welwishing octastichon vnto the said Wolseie. 1656Blount Glossogr., Octostick. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xvii. 143 It is metrified in this Octastick. 1891Driver Introd. Lit. O.T. (ed. 3) 375 Several pentastichs and hexastichs, a heptastich and an octastich also occur. |