ACROSTIC

ACROS'TIC, noun [Gr extremity or beginning, order, or verse.]A composition in verse, in which the first letter of the lines, taken in order, form the name of a person, kingdom, city, etc., which is the subject of the composition, or some title or motto.ACROS'TIC, adjective That relates to, or contains an acrostic

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acrostic. Acrostic, n. a kind of poem whose initial letters form the name of some person or thing

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A‐cros″tic (�) (�), n. [] 1. 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. 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, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.