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- 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.
- Acrostic - 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.
- Acrostic - n. - Alt. of Acrostical
- Acrostical - n. - Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.
- Acrostically - adv. - After the manner of an acrostic.
- Pentacrostic - n. - A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.