Acrostic

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·Alt. of Acrostical.

II. Acrostic ·noun A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). ·see Abecedarian.

III. Acrostic ·noun A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.