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Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; such an acrostic may be called an 'alphabetical acrostic' or abecedarius.These acrostics occur in the Hebrew Bible in the first four of the five chapters of the Book of Lamentations, in the praise of the good wife in Proverbs 31:10-31, and in Psalms 9-10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145. [4]
Abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms are likely to be ambiguous, needing disambiguation. Thus abbreviations should usually be expanded (see Naming conventions (abbreviations)) beforehand. For two- and three-letter combinations, there is generally a list detailing a few or many possible uses.
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It was later used as the title of a short poem of Ernest Dowson. vitae corona fides: faith is the crown of life: Motto of Colchester Royal Grammar School. vitai lampada tradunt: they hand on the torch of life: A quotation from the poem of Lucretius, De rerum natura, Book 2, 77-9.
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"The Beloved Physician" was written around April 1847 for Mary-Louise Shew, a nurse who also inspired Poe's more famous poem, "The Bells". The poem was originally ten stanzas long, although a version with nine stanzas was supposedly prepared by Poe for publication . It was never printed during his lifetime, and it now appears to be lost.
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