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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A poem in which the final letters of the lines make a name.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An acrostic whose message is spelled out in the final letters of each line.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. acrostic.

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek τέλος (telos, "end") + στίχος (stikhos, "line"). See stich. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “(Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word ... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters ...)”

    acrostiche - French Word-A-Day

  • “Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters...”

    acrostiche - French Word-A-Day

  • “(Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word ... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters ...) *** Add a little French to your own blog, website, desktop, or online network Yesterday, Mother's Day here in France, began with a conversation in front of the micro-onde, * where my daughter was ... ”

    acrostiche - French Word-A-Day

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