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anagrammatism|ænəˈgræmətɪz(ə)m|
[a. Fr. anagrammatisme, ad. (perh. through mod.L.) Gr. ἀναγραµµατισµ-ός: see anagrammatize and -ism.]
The formation of anagrams; the transposition of letters so as to form a new word or words.
1605Camden Rem. (1657) 169 Names consisting of alphabetary revolution, which they will have to be anagrammatism. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. iii. 26 By the artifice of anagrammatisme, Syna is made Nysa. 1862H. B. Wheatley Anagr. 74 The practice of anagrammatism was by no means uncommon among the Greeks. |