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- noun Plural form of
acrostic .
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Examples
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When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams.
Gulliver's Travels 1896
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The date of his panegyric, written, according to the taste of the age, in vile acrostics, is settled by Scaliger ad
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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[5] “When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams.
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726
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"When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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"When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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"When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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Our acrostics are a trifle smarter, but all run into one form.
The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1911
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She showed them some curious valentines, whose initials spelled names or words, and were called acrostics, and told of some quaint old-fashioned valentines that had been sent to her grandmother.
Marjorie's New Friend Carolyn Wells 1902
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There is another near relation of the anagrams and acrostics, which is commonly called a chronogram.
Essays and Tales Joseph Addison 1695
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In the Berkshires, society indulged in sports such as hunting and riding, and in-home entertainments like card games, acrostics, and amateur theatrics.
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