单词 | anagrammatism |
释义 | anagrammatismn. Rearrangement of the letters of a word, phrase, or name to form a new word, phrase, or name; the activity or practice of composing anagrams. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > [noun] > creation of anagrammatism1605 anagramming1623 anagrapsis1669 anagrammatizing1738 anagrammatization1876 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 151 Names consisting of Alphabetary revolution, which they will have to be Anagrammatisme. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. iii. 26 By the artifice of anagrammatisme, Syna is made Nysa. 1710 Q. T. Anagram of Daniel de Fo 5 The true and genuine Method of Anagrammatism. 1862 H. B. Wheatley Anagrams 74 The practice of anagrammatism was by no means uncommon among the Greeks. 1936 Isis 26 136 The history of anagrammatism is a part of the history of superstition. 1994 Mnemosyne 47 234 Anagrammatism played its part in the corruption of mycale- to amycle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1605 |
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