单词 | anagrammatizing |
释义 | anagrammatizingn. The action or process of rearranging the letters of a word, phrase, or name, to form another word, phrase, or name. Cf. anagrammatization n. 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 1738 Lett. Crit. Club Feb. viii. 58 Their inimitable Talent of writing in a fustian Stile, Punning, accrostick Work, and anagrammatizing. 1842 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 2 Apr. 84/3 Anagrammatising is of very ancient date, having been one of the ways by which the mystical religionists of old locked up their secrets. 1986 L. B. Rout & J. F. Bratzel Shadow War App. A 461 The Abwehr added to their lack of security by using a constant block size of twenty spaces. This made the anagrammatizing required to decipher any messages much easier. 2016 @weyheymisha 22 July in twitter.com (accessed 1 Mar. 2019) I love anagrammatizing OMG naive for evian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1738 |
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