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acrostic
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph , or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French acrostiche ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. 2 A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acrostic \A*cros"tic\, Acrostical \A*cros"tic*al\, n. Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.
Usage examples of acrostic.
Togarmi, Abulafia freely sprinkled his texts with codes, acrostics, and number-letter puns to simultaneously befuddle his persecutors and communicate freely with knowledgeable Spanish mystics like Joseph Gikatilia, a respected member of his circle.
Kangaroo Island, and she asked me to write some double acrostics for the poor incurables.
In the end I prepared a book of charades and double acrostics, for the printing and binding of which Mrs.
You are right about the undead predilection for noms de plume, alter egos, secret identities, anagrams, and palindromes and acrostics.
In fact, the Prosthetic I have in mind is a rather old model, which is only good for Post-Modern Acrostic Haiku.
Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning.
Writing questions and answers and acrostics to himself on the computer?
No wonder everyone in this place spoke in acrostics, never knowing when they might be overheard.
In that case he would have had to apply the notarikon to the temurah, to invent an acrostic to remember the word.