sestiad

English

Noun

sestiad (plural sestiads)

1. One of six parts.
   • 1837, Francis Egerton, A Catalogue, Biographical and Critical: Of Early English Literature:

     In the first impression of 1598, after the line which concludes the second sestiad, as divided by Chapman, “Dang'd downe to hell her loathsome carriage,” are added the words Desunt nonnulla.

   • 1974, Judith H. Lightfoot, Hero and Leander and the 1590's, page 156:

     I have insisted on the necessity of linking Marlowe's and Chapman's sestiads by reading Hero and Leander in its entirety, because doing so reveals to us more clearly and completely the work of each writer in the poem […]

Anagrams

• disseat, saidest