Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poem in which the final letters of the lines make a name.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf.
acrostic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
acrostic whose message is spelled out in the final letters of each line.
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word ... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters ...)
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(Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word ... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters ...)
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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(Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word ... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters ...)
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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(Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word ... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters ...)
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Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters...
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters...
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(Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word ... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters ...)
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters...
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Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters...
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Also: a "telestich" spells out a term using the last letter in each word... and a "mesostich" does this using middle letters...
reesetee commented on the word telestich
A poem in which the last letters of successive lines form a word, a phrase, or the consecutive letters of the alphabet.
September 26, 2007
qms commented on the word telestich
A limerick’s perfectly fine
With rhymes at the end of the line,
But really the best trick
Would make it telestich,
A challenge I’ll gladly decline.
November 17, 2017