Acrostic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACROSTIC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a poem in acronym form
• a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
• lines of writing in which the first or last letters of each line spell a word or saying
• 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.
• A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.
• Alt. of Acrostical
• a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
• verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a poem in which certain letters taken in order form a word or phrase

Words related to ACROSTIC

acrostical14 acrostically19 acrostics13

Words that contain ACROSTIC

acrostics13 acrostical14 paracrostic17 acrostically19 paracrostics18

How to use ACROSTIC in a sentence

• Homer, Horace sly and caustic, Owed no fame to vile acrostic.
• The epitaph on page 65 and the acrostic on page 107 were written for the same lady.
• Lamb respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he is leaving off business in the acrostic line, as he is going into an entirely new line.
• For years I have puzzled over it, thinking that it might be some form of acrostic, but I can make nothing of it.
• Each of these four is also an acrostic, that is, each succeeding line or group of lines begins with a succeeding letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
• This acrostic form was probably adopted in order to aid the memory, and suggests that from the first these poems were written to be used in public.
• It is almost inconceivable that he would subject his poetic genius to the rigid limitations of the acrostic structure.
• They both follow in their acrostic structure an unusual order of the Hebrew alphabet, differing in this respect from chapters 1 and 3.
• Chapter 5, on the contrary, is in the three-beat measure and lacks the acrostic structure of the preceding chapters.
• Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command, Some peaceful province in Acrostic land.
• Neither the acrostic nor the Alexandrine has the property assigned to it here.
• The first four chapters are acrostic, that is each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
• I made one of the poems an acrostic on his name, so that he might be handed down to posterity.
• Biography Henry Clay Virtuous Age Acrostic Work To-day On the death of a Child Spring Hope Autumn MRS.
• I had an acrostic once sent to me upon my own name, which I was not at all pleased with.

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