Definition of "acrostical" [acrostical]

• Like an acrostic. (adjective)

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• "He is buried in the parish church, and in the north transept is the following acrostical epitaph which he composed for his monument: --"
• "George Leghorn was particularly happy at these pencil games, and to him is due this very clever combination of the lyrical and the acrostical:"
• "The title of the thirty-third has probably been omitted by some copyist; the ninth and tenth in some old Hebrew copies are written as one psalm, and there is an acrostical arrangement which shows that they really belong together."