Acrostic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     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}.
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     {Double acrostic}, a species of enigma, in which words are to
        be guessed whose initial and final letters form other
        words.
        [1913 Webster] Acrostic

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acrostic \A*cros"tic\, Acrostical \A*cros"tic*al\, n.
     Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  acrostic
       n 1: a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the
            same down as across [syn: {word square}]
       2: verse in which certain letters such as the first in each
          line form a word or message

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "acrostic":
     abuse of terms, acronym, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram,
     avyayibhava, back formation, calembour, clipped word, compound,
     conjugate, construction, corruption, dvandva, dvigu,
     endocentric compound, equivocality, equivoque, exocentric compound,
     formation, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram,
     missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, paronym, play on words, pun,
     punning, spoonerism, tatpurusha, word form, wordplay