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Pertaining to, or applied to, the language of the Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux Indians. Schoolcraft.

the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

After the manner of an acrostic.

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos"tic*al*ly, adv.

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)

Seamless. [R.]

Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.

To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease.

aining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs. His rare skill in diagnostics. Macaulay.

A kind of chronogram. [R.] B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological. [R.]

Knowing; wise; shrewd. [Old Slang] I said you were a gnostic fellow. Sir W. Scott.

The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.

A composition consisting of one verse only.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

A painter's maul-stick.

In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.

A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.

A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.