Definitions
1.NounA poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2.NounA poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
3.NounA kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
4.NounA kind of word puzzle in which a series of words are clued, and individual letters from the clued word spell out one or more additional words.
5.AdjectiveOf or pertaining to acrostics.