ACROSTIC

acrostic

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

acrostic (plural acrostics) (also, attributively)

A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. [from 16th c.]

A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.

A kind of word puzzle, the solution of which forms an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often forming the name of its author.

Hyponyms

• telestich

• word square

Anagrams

• Racicots, Ritaccos, Socratic, sarcotic

Source: Wiktionary

A*cros"tic, n. Etym: [Gr.

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*cros"tic, A*cros"ti*cal, n.

Definition: Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition