Acrostically


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A`cros´tic`al`ly


adv.1.After the manner of an acrostic.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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that wound themselves to God, acrostically. I'm thrilled, and then
Mazzoni begins by posing the question, "In what ways, with which voice, does Saint Gemma Galgani of Lucca speak to us today?" (193), and then offers her own answer(s) through a series of meditations, arranged acrostically according to certain keywords ("Autobiography," "Body," "Clothing," and so on).
The well-known Akkadian composition Asis[...], usually designated "The Babylonian Theodicy," is an acrostically arranged dialogue containing twenty-seven stanzas of eleven lines each in which an anonymous sufferer complains to his wise friend about his bitter lot in life.