acrostic
- n a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
- n verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
- Latin as a language rather than as a moldy acrostic.
- It does not explain away its protagonist's schizophrenia with some unearthed childhood trauma, as if the condition were a sort of Freudian acrostic to be solved.
- acrostic? To justify a common tale of self.