a. [mod. f. Gr. ἄκρο- (see ACRO-) + λόγ-ος word + -IC. Cf. Fr. acrologique.] Pertaining to, or founded on, initials.
1882. I. Taylor, jun., in Academy, 28 Jan., 63. This method of acrologic notation may have received a further extension; so that the ciphers 1, 2, and 3 may have been derived from the initial letters of eka, dva, and tri, to which they bear some resemblance.
