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Definition of Acrostics
1. acrostic [n] - See also: acrostic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrostics
Literary usage of Acrostics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"[With] 2 Poetical acrostics, an inscribed presentation copy of " Alice's Adventures
Underground," and a copy of " Three Sunsets and other Poems. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"While most of these poems are simple and effective, many of his original poems
are marred by a laboured artificiality, acrostics and other metrical devices ..."
3. A Whimsey Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1906)
"acrostics ACROSTIC Earth now is green and heaven is blue; Lively spring which
makes all new. lolly spring doth enter. Sweet young sunbeams do subdue Angry ..."
4. The Comic History of the United States,: From a Period Prior to the by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"The new French acrostics; and the Attempts by our Commissioners and Congress to
solve them. — Gold-mounted Spectacles, offered us by France; ..."
5. Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative to the by Richard Ryan (1826)
"ANAGRAMS AND acrostics. ONB " Mistress Mary Fage," who flourished in the time
... She published a whole book of anagrams and acrostics, under the title of ..."
6. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by David Patrick, Robert Chambers (1902)
"... acrostics ; >umi.- times of syllables, as in echoes and doggerel rhymes;
sometimes of words, as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences ..."
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