Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-CRO-TE-LEU'TIC
A-CRO-TE-LEU'TIC, n. [Gr. ακρος, extreme, and τελευτη, end.]
Among ecclesiastical writers, an appellation given to any thing added to the end of a psalm, or hymn; as a doxology.
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