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Webster 1913 Edition
Acrostic
A-cros′tic
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] extreme + [GREEK] 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.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Acrostic
ACROS'TIC
,Noun.
A composition in verse, in which the first letter of the lines, taken in order, form the name of a person, kingdom, city, &c., which is the subject of the composition, or some title or motto.
ACROS'TIC
,Adj.