NOUN
- a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
- verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
How To Use acrostic In A Sentence
- In a wider sense the name acrostic is applied to alphabetical or "abecedarian" poems. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- It can form monospecific 'islands' on patches of dark soil but is often found in association with Acrostichum danaeafolium, Bucida spinosa, Cladium jamaicense, Conocarpus erectus, Dalbergia glabra, Chrysobalanus icaco and Thrinax radiata. Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
- It's a good day to read the Times, do the acrostic, grade some exams, watch a movie, and eat dinner in a restaurant.
- Here is the last letter in our SUCCEED acrostic: Dedicate your work to be used for God's purposes.
- On the inside, she glued six custom-sized acrostics of the names of herself and her relatives, dated 1812 to 1814.
- I plan to do another blog post, finish the acrostic in the NYT Magazine, and do a bit of walking (with the help of my camera).
- In proof of his subdued quality, however, under the acrostical tyranny, I quote two little unpublished specimens addressed to the Misses Locke, whom he had never seen. Charles Lamb
- = An acrostic is "aline of poetry composed in such a way that in reading, in the vertical direction, the first letter of each verse, we find the word used as a theme. French Word-A-Day:
- Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
- An acrostic is "a line of poetry composed in such a way that in reading, in the vertical direction, the first letter of each verse, we find the word used as a theme. Acrostiche - French Word-A-Day
