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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Acrostic \A*cros"tic\, n. [Gr. ?; ? extreme + ? 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Acrostic \A*cros"tic\, Acrostical \A*cros"tic*al\, n. Pertaining to or characterized by acrostics. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: acrostic n 1: a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across [syn: {word square}] 2: verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
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