n. A form of verbal sparring used especially in ancient Greek drama or poetry, in which single lines of verse or parts of lines are spoken by alternate speakers. [Greek stikhomūthiā, from stikhomūthein, to speak in alternating lines : stikhos, stich; see steigh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + mūthos, speech.] stich′o·mythic adj. |
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