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Acrostic

noun

A puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across. Synonym: word square.

Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message.

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"Acrostic" Quotes from Famous Books

... namesake that he wrote many letters about him. Nearly every ship that sailed for Boston brought a letter from him to the Franklin family, and almost every letter contained a piece of poetry from his pen. One of his letters about that time contained the following acrostic ...

— From Boyhood to Manhood • William M. Thayer

... a superstitious encouragement in an acrostic which some ingenious journalist has constructed out of the names of the Commanders-in-Chief of the French and British armies. ...

— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood

... probably in that year that he wrote L'Amorosa Fiammetta and the allegorical prose pastoral (with songs interspersed) which he entitled Ameto, and in which Fiammetta masquerades in green as one of the nymphs. The Amorosa Visione, written about the same time, is not only an allegory but an acrostic, the initial letters of its fifteen hundred triplets composing two sonnets and a ballade in honour of Fiammetta, whom he here for once ventures to call by her true name. Later came the Teseide, or romance of Palamon and Arcite, the first extant rendering of the story, ...

— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio

Words linked to "Acrostic" : teaser, mystifier, puzzle, literary work, puzzler, literary composition