- An
acrostic is a poem or
other word
composition in
which the
first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or
other recurring feature...
- An
acrostic is a type of word puzzle,
related somewhat to
crossword puzzles, that uses an
acrostic form. It
typically consists of two parts. The first...
- An
acrostic ring is a
Victorian romantic 19th
century ring in
which the
initials of the
precious stones mounted on the band
spell out a word such as dearest...
- to the
fifth chapter, is not
acrostic but
still has 22 lines.
Although some
claim that
purpose or
function of the
acrostic form is unknown, it is frequently...
- to
reveal "Hofstadter's
Contracrostipunctus Acrostically Backwards Spells J. S. Bach". The
second acrostic is
found by
taking the
first letters of the...
- are in
Hebrew or Aramaic, and most
follow some
poetic scheme, such as an
acrostic following the
order of the
Hebrew alphabet or
spelling out the name of...
- po****rity
seemingly arose from the Gr**** word
ichthys (fish)
forming an
acrostic for the Gr****
phrase Iesous Christos Theou Yios
Soter (Ἰησοῦς Χριστός,...
-
unrighteousness or
inability of humans. They have been
summarized under the
acrostic TULIP:
total depravity,
unconditional election,
limited atonement, irresistible...
-
examples survive. The
earliest known examples are the 1st-century CE
Latin acrostic word square, the
Sator Square (which
contains both word and
sentence palindromes)...
-
introduction to Silenus's song (lines 14–24) Neil
Adkin discovered an
acrostic,
consisting of the word LAESIS,
meaning 'for
those who have been harmed'...
