acrostic

[A*cros·tic]

Remember writing poems as a kid in which you wrote a word vertically down the page and started each line with one of the letters in that word? That was an acrostic poem.

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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.

Noun
verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

Noun
a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across

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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.

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A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

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Alt. of Acrostical

Acrostic

A*cros"tic , n. [Gr. ; extreme + order, line, verse.] 1. 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. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

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.

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