acrostic UK /əˈkɹɒstɪk/US /əˈkɹɔstɪk/noun 4adjective 1forms 3 noun[before a noun]4 •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. — 1603 •A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet. •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 — 1924 •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. adjective[before a noun]1 •Of or pertaining to acrostics.Other ancients have suggested that the original verses were written in hieroglyphs and also mentioned the acrostic code. — 1998 formsacrostics · more acrostic · most acrostic
