title: Octonary
text: # Octonary
  
      For the base-8 numeral system, see octal.
  
  An octonary is an eight-line section in a poem, song or psalm. The most notable example is found in Psalm 119
  
  In the French renaissance the octonaire became a form of moralizing chanson.
  
  It can also mean of 8th rank or order (primary, secondary, tertiary … octonary).
  
  