Ē'te-ŏs'tic, n.

(110), n. [Gr. ἔτος, gen. ἔτεος, year, and στιχός, row, order, line, verse, from στείχειν, root στίχ, to go up, ascend.] A chronogrammatical composition; a phrase or piece, the initial letters of which express a date; a chronogram. [Rare.] See CHRONOGRAM. B. Jonson.