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Webster 1913 Edition

Pentacrostic

Penˊta-cros′tic

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Noun.
[
Penta-
+
acrostic
.]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pentacrostic

PENTACROS'TIC

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Adj.
[Gr. five, and acrostic.] Containing five acrostics of the same name in five divisions of each verse.

PENTACROS'TIC

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Noun.
A set of verses so disposed as to have five acrostics of the same name in five divisions of each verse.

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