anagrammatizationn.
/ˌanəˌɡramətʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌænəˌɡræmədəˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌænəˌɡræməˌtaɪˈzeɪʃən/ The action or result of rearranging the letters of a word, phrase, or name, to form another word, phrase, or name. Also: an instance of this; something which has been anagrammatized.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > [noun] > creation of
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anagramming1623
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anagrammatization1876
1876 Pacific Rural Press (San Francisco) 19 Aug. 127/2 Pilates's question to Jesus..: ‘Quid est veritas?’ (what is truth), which has been anagrammatized into the reply: ‘Est vir qui adest’ (the man who is before you)... The question is quite long and the answer, formed by its anagrammatization is such a good and fitting one.
1906 Key to Puzzledom (Eastern Puzzlers' League) 46 His anagrammatization of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra into gave us a damned clever satire is an amazing piece of literary legerdemain.
2004 Early Amer. Lit. 39 267 Explicitly refusing to hide behind the anonymity guaranteed by a baroque anagrammatization of his name.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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