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Definition of Acrostic
1. Noun. A puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across.
2. Noun. Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message.
Definition of Acrostic
1. n. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
2. n. Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.
Definition of Acrostic
1. Noun. A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. ¹
2. Noun. A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acrostic
1. a poem in which certain letters taken in order form a word or phrase [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrostic
Literary usage of Acrostic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cryptography of Shakespeare by Walter Arensberg (1922)
"CHAPTER II THE SIMPLE ANAGRAMMATIC acrostic In the light of the simpler structures
of the acrostic and the anagram we are now prepared to examine the ..."
2. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk by John Merlin Powis Smith, William Hayes Ward, Julius August Bewer (1911)
"Am. (1901) subjected the work of his predecessors to a keen criticism and maintained
that only a fragment of the original acrostic had been incorporated in ..."
3. Writing Poetry With Children by Jo Ellen Moore (1999)
"M: Another enjoyable form of word play is to create an acrostic poem. ...
Read examples of acrostic poems to students before asking them to write their own. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"acrostic verse is no longer cultivated by serious poets, and has in fact been
relegated mainly to country newspapers, except as a jest or social pastime. ..."
5. Autobiography of Lorenzo Waugh by Lorenzo Waugh (1888)
"Thomas Guard 320 Remarks on Pure Social Life 320-321 acrostic: L. Waugh and Olive A.
Jenner 321 acrostic: Flora Gardner and Florence May Taylor 322 ..."
6. Palmerin of England: Some Remarks on this Romance and on the Controversy by William Edward Purser (1904)
"Nature of acrostic, p. 228—4. Ferrer claimed to be the author of Palmerin, p.
... (2) What character does Luis Hurtado claim for himself in the acrostic ? ..."
7. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by Martha Joanna Lamb, Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-, John Austin Stevens (1889)
"acrostic BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS During the administration of President Polk Hon.
... The little girl sat by his side while he wrote an impromptu acrostic, ..."
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