Synonyms for acrostic

Grammar : Noun

Spell : uh-kraw-stik, uh-kros-tik

Phonetic Transcription : əˈkrɔ stɪk, əˈkrɒs tɪk

Définition of acrostic

Origin : short poem in which the initial letters of the lines, taken in order, spell a word or phrase, 1580s, from Medieval Latin acrostichis, from Greek akrostikhis, from akros "at the end, outermost" (see acrid) + stikhos "line of verse," literally "row" (see stair).

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Example sentences :

Sense or nonsense, just as you please, so as it shows us what an acrostic is.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

In an acrostic the beginnings of the lines are arranged in order.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

The answer to the acrostic is “mantrap”; the missing rhyme is “mishap.”
Extract from : « Marge Askinforit » by Barry Pain

But then in the hands of Swinburne an acrostic would cease to be artificial.
Extract from : « Figures of Several Centuries » by Arthur Symons

But there is no more trace of acrostic structure in x. till ver.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 1 » by A. Maclaren

It is not only the exigencies of the acrostic which determine the order in ver.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 1 » by A. Maclaren

Marked progress of thought is not to be looked for in an acrostic psalm.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 1 » by A. Maclaren

I must show you an acrostic that a gentleman—he was a lieutenant in the 53rd—made upon it.
Extract from : « Wives and Daughters » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Unlike its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic.
Extract from : « Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon » by Walter Adeney

Next is a copy of an acrostic epitaph from Tewkesbury Abbey.
Extract from : « Curious Epitaphs » by Various

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