0 a text, usually a poem, in which particular letters, such as the first letters of each line, spell a word or phrase
He wrote the words for almost all his funerary songs, often incorporating the name of the deceased as an acrostic.
If a song text alluded to the name of the recipient, it often did so via an acrostic that was independent of the surface meaning of the words.
We should think about the difficulties we create by such an acrostic method of legislation.
And so, since each chapter, without exception, contained twenty-five paragraphs, the censors and the general public soon discovered twenty-five acrostics.
It was intended to be used in versification, in which acrostics and rime were the chief requisites.
These chapters are completed by the author's signature, and are followed by two hymns, the latter apparently a sort of alphabetical acrostic.
Acrostic poems conveyed meanings in the initial letters of lines or in letters at other specific places in a poem.
He took up poetry at a very young age and had written many poems and acrostics before he reached his twenties.
