telestich

telestich
/teuh les"tik, tel"euh stik'/, n. Pros.
a poem in which the last letters of successive lines form a word, a phrase, or the consecutive letters of the alphabet. Cf. acrostic.
[1630-40; TELE-2 + STICH1]

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  • tele- — I. 1. Also, tel , telo . a word element meaning distant , especially transmission over a distance , as in telegraph. 2. a word element referring to television, as in telemovie, teletext. 3. a word element referring to the use of… …  

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