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acrosticA number of lines of writing, usually verse, whose initial letters (read downwards) form a word, phrase, or sentence. A single acrostic is formed by the initial letters of lines only; a double acrostic is formed by the first and last letters.
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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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