Look up: Acrostic

1. Acrostic
   Poem where the first letter of each line spells out a significant word e.g.
   Flat land stretching
   Endlessly be-
   Neath a huge
   Sky.
   The term acrostic derives from the Greek for 'at the tip of the verse'. See also telestich.
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2. acrostic
   [n] - verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
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3. Acrostic
   a poetic form which is organised by the initial letters of a key word, either at the beginning of lines, or with lines arranged around them: Whistling wildly Blowing In a rain Northern round Direction. and round.
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4. Acrostic
   A·cros'tic noun [ Greek ...; ... 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. ...
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5. Acrostic
   • (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. • (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm c...
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6. acrostic
   short verse composition, so constructed that the initial letters of the lines, taken consecutively, form words. The term is derived from the Greek ...
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7. acrostic
   acrostic, acrostical, acrostichic 1. A number of lines of writing, especially a poem or word puzzle, in which particular letters, e.g., the first, in each line spell a word or phrase. 2. A short poem (or other composition) in which the initial letters of the lines, taken in order, spell a word, phra...
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8. acrostic
   a word, phrase, or passage spelled out vertically by the first letters of a group of lines in sequence. Sir John Davies' Hymnes of Astraea dedicates 26 acrostic poems to Elizabeth I. Edgar Allan Poe's 'Enigma' provides another example. Samuel Johnson's great dictionary (1755) quotes John Dryden: Lea...
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9. acrostic
   acrostic (ukro'stik) , arrangement of words or lines in which a series of initial, final, or other corresponding letters, when taken together, stand in a set order to form a word, a phrase, the alphabet, or the like. A famous acrostic was made on the Greek for Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior: Ie...
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10. Acrostic
    An acrostic is a poem in which the first or last, or certain other letters of the line, taken in order, form some name, motto, or sentence. A poem of which both first and last letters are thus arranged is called a double acrostic. Double acrostics became very popular in 1867.
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11. acrostic
    A number of lines of writing, usually verse, whose initial letters (read downwards) form a word, phrase, or sentence. A single acrostic is formed by the initial letters of lines only; a double acrostic is formed by the first and last letters
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12. Acrostic
    An `acrostic` () is a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message<ref name=acrostic>--> Similar tactics were used in 2001 by Stephen Pollard to conceal the message "Fuc...
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13. Acrostic
    (puzzle) An `acrostic` is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer. The second part is a lon...
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