1.noun
A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
- 'He followed this lively discussion with another literacy activity-having students do an acrostic, using the word ‘retarded.’'
- 'The Greeks did enjoy making acrostics, but that's a different kind of wordplay (despite the fact that the Times confusingly calls word squares ‘acrostic squares’).'
- 'This is the Hebrew month of Elul, which in Hebrew forms an acrostic for the words: ‘I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine.’'
- 'So an entire stanza or page might at times intervene between the M and the U of Mud (at other points the acrostic goes line to line).'
- 'A simple structure for your prayer life may be based on an acrostic on the words ACTS.'
- 'I plan to do another blog post, finish the acrostic in the NYT Magazine, and do a bit of walking (with the help of my camera).'
- 'Both free verse and rhymed poetry styles are studied, including cinquain, haiku, tanka, rhopalic, echo and refrain poems, acrostics, alphabet and dictionary poems.'
- 'He took weekly Sabbath walks to the University of North Carolina to sell fruit, soon winning the students' admiration by composing love lyrics and acrostics to order.'
- 'It's a good day to read the Times, do the acrostic, grade some exams, watch a movie, and eat dinner in a restaurant.'
- 'A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.'
((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 cxix.). See
Abecedarian.|--|(n.) Alt. of Acrostical|--|)
noun
1.
a series of lines or verses in which the first, last, or other particular letters when taken in order spell out a word, phrase, etc.
adjective
2.
Also, acrostical. of, like, or forming an acrostic.
