meaning of acrostic
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.
3. Alt. of Acrostical
4. verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
Related Words
acrostic | acrostical | acrostically | acrostichum | acrostichum aureum |
