stichometry Meaning, Definition & Usage

Stich*om"e*try noun
Etymology
Gr. a line + -metry.
Definitions
  1. Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.
  2. Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.

Webster 1913