octastichn.

Brit.

/ˈɒktəstɪk/, U.S.

/ˈɑktəstɪk/

Forms:

α. 1500s–1800s octastichon.

β. 1600s octastick, 1600s octostick, 1800s– octastich.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek ὀκτάστιχος.

Etymology: < Byzantine Greek ὀκτάστιχος of eight verses < ancient Greek ὀκτα- octa- comb. form + στίχος stich n. Compare Middle French octostique (1584).

Prosody.

A group of eight lines of verse.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > eight-lined stanza

octonary1530

ogdoastich1579

octavea1586

octastich1587

huitain1589

octave stanza1774

octraina1827

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 922/2 When I. Leland the famous antiquarie wrote this welwishing octastichon vnto the said Wolseie.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Octostick, see Osdastic.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xvii. 143 It is metrified in this Octastick.

1872 M. Collins Brit. Birds 45 Waiters are portlier than kings, and steaks are tender, And poets have been known to meditate... Ox-fed orating ominous octastichs.

1891 S. R. Driver Introd. Lit. Old Test. (ed. 3) 375 Several pentastichs and hexastichs, a heptastich and an octastich also occur.

1951 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 14 215 The man to whom this octastich is attributed was one who, according to Austin Dobson, ‘loved books almost too well to sell them’.

1981 R. N. Soulen Handbk. Biblical Crit. 44 An octastich in Ps. 119.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	octastich
释义	octastichn. Brit. /ˈɒktəstɪk/, U.S. /ˈɑktəstɪk/ Forms: α. 1500s–1800s octastichon. β. 1600s octastick, 1600s octostick, 1800s– octastich. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek ὀκτάστιχος. Etymology: < Byzantine Greek ὀκτάστιχος of eight verses < ancient Greek ὀκτα- octa- comb. form + στίχος stich n. Compare Middle French octostique (1584). Prosody. A group of eight lines of verse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > eight-lined stanza octonary1530 ogdoastich1579 octavea1586 octastich1587 huitain1589 octave stanza1774 octraina1827 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 922/2 When I. Leland the famous antiquarie wrote this welwishing octastichon vnto the said Wolseie. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Octostick, see Osdastic. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xvii. 143 It is metrified in this Octastick. 1872 M. Collins Brit. Birds 45 Waiters are portlier than kings, and steaks are tender, And poets have been known to meditate... Ox-fed orating ominous octastichs. 1891 S. R. Driver Introd. Lit. Old Test. (ed. 3) 375 Several pentastichs and hexastichs, a heptastich and an octastich also occur. 1951 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 14 215 The man to whom this octastich is attributed was one who, according to Austin Dobson, ‘loved books almost too well to sell them’. 1981 R. N. Soulen Handbk. Biblical Crit. 44 An octastich in Ps. 119. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587
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