acrostic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.

   “I have written an acroſticke ſonet to his Maieſtie, a canzonet to the Queene, and another acroſticke unto the Prince; whoſe ſervant I am by vow, and ſubordinate ſubject by birth.”

2. isim A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
3. isim A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.

   “those who rack their brains in solving the Acrostics in our Sunday papers will, perchance, be saved many a rack and many a failure by our reverse alphabetical arrangement”

4. isim A kind of word puzzle in which a series of words are clued, and individual letters from the clued word spell out one or more additional words.
5. sıfat Of or pertaining to acrostics.

   “Other ancients have suggested that the original verses were written in hieroglyphs and also mentioned the acrostic code.”