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acrostic Noun a number of lines of writing, such as a poem, in which the first or last letters form a word or proverb [Greek akros outermost + stikhos line of verse]
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| I had an acrostic once sent to me upon my own name, which I was not at all pleased with. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;--read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams. |
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