pentacrostic

English

Etymology

From penta- +‎ acrostic.

Noun

pentacrostic (plural pentacrostics)

  1. A set of verses arranged so that the name of the subject occurs five times, the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.
    • 1863, Sophy Moody, What is Your Name?, page 176:
      There were also pentacrostics, where the name was repeated five times.
    • 1872, Crack (pseud.), Whetstones for wits; or, Double acrostics
      There are instances […] of pentacrostics, i.e., of acrostics where the required letters form five columns in the poem. An average specimen of these is the Latin acrostic in hexameter verse, prefixed to the first volume of Father Bluteau's Portuguese Dictionary, in praise of the author.
    • 1897, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 116:
      Rojas […] has left us a pentacrostic from which we learn his name, and that he was a lawyer and a native of Montalvan in the province of Toledo.
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