How To Use Acrostic In A Sentence
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In a wider sense the name acrostic is applied to alphabetical or "abecedarian" poems.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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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
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It's a good day to read the Times, do the acrostic, grade some exams, watch a movie, and eat dinner in a restaurant.
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Here is the last letter in our SUCCEED acrostic: Dedicate your work to be used for God's purposes.
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On the inside, she glued six custom-sized acrostics of the names of herself and her relatives, dated 1812 to 1814.
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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).
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In proof of his subdued quality, however, under the acrostical tyranny, I quote two little unpublished specimens addressed to the Misses Locke, whom he had never seen.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
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= 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:
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Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
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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
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Even the orthography functions as a unit of visual organization, and of allusion: much of the verse is in fact structured by an acrostic.
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Actually, the composer Stefan Weisman was so taken by the acrostic form that he actually used the armature to compose the music for the opera.
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It's true that word games (puns, acrostics, charades, and so on) were once thought of as ‘merely’ innocent entertainments.
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The Mona Liza is a sort of riddle, an acrostic, a poetical decoction, a ballade, a rondel, a villanelle or ballade with double burden, a sestina, that is what it is like, a sestina or chant royal.
Memoirs of My Dead Life
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The answer to the acrostic is "mantrap"; the missing rhyme is "mishap.
Marge Askinforit
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The shrew-mouse had the rest of the day to dance, play, and amuse himself, listen to the roundelays and ballads which the poets composed in his honour, play the lute and the mandore, make acrostics, eat, drink and be merry.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
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The book closes with an acrostical poem --- twenty-two verses beginning with the Hebrew letters in the order of the alphabet -- upon "The Virtuous
Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
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A simple structure for your prayer life may be based on an acrostic on the words ACTS.
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Mullen's poems, which often incorporate word games like anagrams, acrostics, and puns, can border on the nonsensical (or, as she says, ‘skirt the edges of meaning’).
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The title of the thirty-third has probably been omitted by some copyist; the ninth and tenth in some old Hebrew copies are written as one psalm, and there is an acrostical arrangement which shows that they really belong together.
Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
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He took weekly Sabbath walks to the University of North Carolina to sell fruit, soon winning the students' admiration by composing love lyrics and acrostics to order.
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Cassandra Gray nodded again, glanced at Miranda and returned to her acrostic.
UNTO THE GRAVE
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He followed this lively discussion with another literacy activity: having students do an acrostic.
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Both free verse and rhymed poetry styles are studied, including cinquain, haiku, tanka, rhopalic, echo and refrain poems, acrostics, alphabet and dictionary poems.
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This acrostic was probably written by a second or third-century Christian.
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Microsania departs from all empid genera in possessing a large and inflexed hypopygium and a single median row of acrostichal hairs.
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If you thought that puns, acrostics, charades, et cetera were quaint relics from a bygone era, then think again as Robert Dessaix brings us up to date on Word Games.
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To reflect this, God's name seems to have been intentionally left out of the narrative, appearing only as a hidden acrostic.
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Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
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Next, from the garde-manger, where she had hidden it, she produced this hand-written acrostiche:
French Word-A-Day:
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Acrostichum, a Bolbophyllum, a rare Aristolochia foliis palmatis, 7 lobis, subtus glaucis; sapor peracerbus, floribus _siphonicis_.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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= 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.
Acrostiche - French Word-A-Day
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The title of the poem is a near acrostic, containing the word coital (perhaps suggestive of self and other joining together).
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This is the Hebrew month of Elul, which in Hebrew forms an acrostic for the words: ‘I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine.’
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The lamentations of Jeremiah have the form of an acrostic, that is, the verses begin with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in regular order, the first with
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
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It preserves the acrostic and mesostic, though not the telestic, form of the original:
Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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In acrostic poems the rhyme is sometimes supplied by the corresponding letter of the alphabet; thus the first strophe rhymes with a, the second with b, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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In the Old Testament all the recognized acrostics belong to the alphabetical type (abecedarian).
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The first four chapters are acrostic, that is each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
The Bible Book by Book A Manual for the Outline Study of the Bible by Books
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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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So an entire stanza or page might at times intervene between the M and the U of Mud (at other points the acrostic goes line to line).
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In a wider sense the name acrostic is applied to alphabetical or "abecedarian" poems.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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He is buried in the parish church, and in the north transept is the following acrostical epitaph which he composed for his monument: --
Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland
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Next, from the garde-manger, * where she had hidden it, she produced this hand-written acrostic:
French Word-A-Day:
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The Greeks did enjoy making acrostics, but that's a different kind of wordplay (despite the fact that the Times confusingly calls word squares ‘acrostic squares’).
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Both free verse and rhymed poetry styles are studied, including cinquain, haiku, tanka, rhopalic, echo and refrain poems, acrostics, alphabet and dictionary poems.
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According to the author, the acrostic may first have been used as a mnemotechnic device to ensure completeness in the oral transmission of sacred texts.
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a poetaster "stewing" his brains with a poem of this description, which of course demanded a certain amount of tedious and minute attention to the arrangement of the name of the individual to whom the anagram or acrostic was to be addressed, and this was especially the case, where the writer contemplated
The Lucasta Poems
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The ground flora was dominated by 5 - to 6-m-high Xylocarpus, with small patches of Acrostichum aureum and many Rhizophora apiculata seedlings.
New Guinea mangroves
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I'm a huge fan of crosswords, both American-style and cryptic (though I suck rocks at the latter); I dig acrostics, and even cryptograms.
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George Leghorn was particularly happy at these pencil games, and to him is due this very clever combination of the lyrical and the acrostical:
Marge Askinforit
