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† ˈogdoastich Obs.
Also 7 -ick, -ique, and in quasi-Gr. form -icon.
[A by-form of octastich, after Gr. ὀγδοάς: see ogdoad.]
A poem or stanza of eight lines: = octastich.
1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. i. 19 His request to Diana, in an hexastick, and her answer in an ogdoastick..are in the British story. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 673, I haue read this Ogdoasticon following. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 54 It will not be much out of the byas, to insert (in this Ogdoastique) a few verses of the Latine which was spoken in that age. |