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Definition of Acrostically
1. adv. After the manner of an acrostic.
Definition of Acrostically
1. Adverb. In the manner of an acrostic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acrostically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrostically
Literary usage of Acrostically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Interpretation: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of by Frederic William Farrar (1886)
"1, because acrostically the word ton " He created" involves the initial letters
of Father, Son, and 1 Chagiga, f. 12, 1. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... also called Rambam (formed acrostically from Rabbi Moses ben Maimun), and by
the Arabians Abu Am ran Musa Obeidallah ..."
3. Catalogue by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) (1897)
"The eleven stanzas at the beginning furnish acrostically the name of the man who
completed the Celestina, thus—El Bachiller Francisco de ..."
4. Catalogue by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) (1894)
"... goes metrically over the same ground, but reveals his name and the particulars
acrostically as cited above in the description of the first edition. ..."
5. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"... of epithets from which acrostically the significant word avoid can be constructed.
The principle when barely and baldly stated seems incompatible -with ..."
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