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The Oxford Companion to the Bible
An acrostic is a poem in which the initial letters of each successive line form a word, phrase, or pattern. ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(ἀκροστιχίς), a composition in prose or verse in which the initial letters of each section form a word, phrase, ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
literary devices, employed especially in verse. Alphabetic acrostics are found in the Bible (e.g., Ps. 34; Ps. 119; Prv. 31.10–31; ...
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
An acrostic is a poem whose subject, or the name of the author or dedicatee, can be read in a ...
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
a word or phrase formed from the initial letters of a number of consecutive lines of verse. Acrostics may occur by chance (Eust. ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words. The word is recorded from the late 16th century, and comes via French from Greek ...
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