acrostic

suomi-englanti sanakirja

acrostic englannista suomeksi

1. sanaleikki

2. akrostikon

0. Substantiivi

1. akrostikon

acrostic englanniksi

1. A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. (defdate)

2. (quote-book) In Two Volumes|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Printed by and for W. and J. Richardson|date=(J2G)|year_published=1771|volume=I|pages=278–279|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=jVAJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA279|oclc=1114771676|passage=He &91;(w)&93; was termed ''Mackabæus'', becauſe he carried in his ſtandard, or ''vexillum militare'', theſe four Hebrew letters, ''Mem'', ''Chaph'', ''Beth'', and ''Jod'', or M. C. B. and J. whereunto their points being added, which are their vowells, (for others they have none) his mott was ''Mackabai'', whereof he took his name. Theſe four letters are the acroſtickes or initiall letters of theſe four wordes in the fifteenth chapter of the book of Exodus, ''Mi Chamocha Baalim Jehovah'', which is in Latin ''Quis ſicut tu Deorum Jehova?''

3. (quote-book)|location=printed at London|publisher=By Simmes|Valentine Simmes for Clement Knight|year=1603|oclc=1121369048|editor2=Payne Collier|John Payne Collier|title2=Pancharis: The First Booke. (..)|series2=Illustrations of Old English Literature Series|seriesvolume2=volume 2, number 1|location2=London|publisher2=printed|year2=1866|page2=55|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=1J1TAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA55|oclc2=62207415|passage=I have written an acroſticke ſonet to his Maieſtie, a canzonet to the Queene, and another acroſticke unto the Prince; whoſe ſervant I am by vow, and ſubordinate ſubject by birth.

4. (RQ:Burton Melancholy) apply his minde I ſay to ''Heraldry'', ''Antiquity'', invent Impreſſes, Emblemes; make ''Epithalamiums'', ''Epitaphs'', ''Elegies'', ''Epigrams'', ''Palindrona Epigrammata'', ''Anagrams'', ''Chronograms'', ''Acroſticks'', upon his friends names; (..)

5. (quote-journal);(nb...)|date=(J2G)|year_published=1670|volume=XIV|issue=162|pages=707–708|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvwSuBLY6GgC&pg=RA1-PA708|oclc=630046584|passage=And afterwards gives as many reaſons for it, as there are letters in ''Hibernaculum Ciconiarum'', and that too in the ''Acrostick'' way, each ſentence beginning with a letter of thoſe words, according to their order.

6. (RQ:Spectator)

7. (RQ:Swift Gulliver's Travels)

8. (quote-book) In Two Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed for Evans (bookseller, 1742–1784)|Thomas Evans(nb...)|year=a. 1765|year_published=1774|volume=I|page=175|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcAzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA175|oclc=1008267226|passage=No (smallcaps), no (smallcaps) fine, / Great letters lacing down each line; / No ſtrange (smallcaps), no invention / Beyond the reach of comprehenſion, / ... / Shall ſtrive to pleaſe you, at th' expence / Of ſimple taſte, and common ſenſe.

9. (quote-book)|year=1822|section=footnote p|page=345|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xnJPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA345|oclc=931251588|passage=On this monument is a long epitaph in verse, which is printed in Prince's Worthies. It is an acrostic, the first letters of each line forming the words "Oliver Hill of Shilston."

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11. (RQ:Graves Good-bye)

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13. (quote-book)|year=2009|page=65|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0XFyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|isbn=978-1-4129-5332-0|passage=Acrostics and acronyms are examples of mnemonic devices. ... ''Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally'' (''PEMDAS''), has become the most well-known acrostic for helping students remember the order of operations when solving an algebraic equation. The acrostic reminds students to start by solving inside the ''parentheses'', then simplifying the ''exponents'', next ''multiplying'' or ''dividing'' (whichever comes first when looking from left to right), then finally ''adding'' or ''subtracting'' (whichever comes first from left to right).

14. A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.

15. (quote-book) to the Babylonish Captivity|title=A New History of the Holy Bible, from the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity.(nb...)|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Printed for Stephen Austen,(nb...)|year=1744|section=book VI, footnote|page=950|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=kv8iAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA950|oclc=813034414|passage=The Whole the (w) is wrote in a very lively, tender, and pathetic Stile; and all the Chapters, except the laſt, (which ſeems to have been of later Compoſition than the reſt) are in ''Acroſtick'' Verſe, ''i.e.'' every Line, or ''Couplet'', begins, in an ''Alphabetical'' Order, with ſome Letter in the ''Hebrew'' Alphabet.

16. (quote-book) The acrostic form perhaps explains why the specificity one expects in a thanksgiving is diluted.

17. A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.

18. (quote-book) Reading down the first letter of each answer spells the name of the author and the title of the work from which the quote was taken.

19. A 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.

20. Of or pertaining to acrostics.

21. {{quote-text|en|year=1998|author=Deborah J. Bennett|title=Randomness|page=42|publisher=Harvard University Press