[A factitious formation from ACROSS, or ACROSSED (= acrost).] Crossed, folded across; moving crosswise, erratic, zig-zag.
1602. Middleton, Fam. of Love, IV. iv. Wks. II. 179. What melancholy sir, with acrostic arms, now comes?
1797. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XXIII. 566. The capricious skips of an acrostic itinerary.
