单词 | pangrammatist |
释义 | pangrammatistn. A writer who uses every letter of the alphabet in a single sentence, line of verse, etc.; a composer of pangrams. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > poet using specific form lipogrammatist1711 pangrammatist1739 roundeleer1838 triadist1868 1739 J. Merrick in tr. Tryphiodorus Destr. Troy p. xxvii There is yet another style of Writers which..may not improperly be called Pangrammatists... It was not sufficient for them that their Poems consisted of the proper feet and measure, unless all the letters of the Alphabet were crowded into every single line of them. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 254 Rivalling the Pangrammatists and Lipogrammatists of old in quaint and laughter-stirring conceits. 1860 C. C. Bombaugh Gleanings 15 The Pangrammatists contrive to crowd all the letters of the alphabet into every single verse. 1985 Sci. Amer. Jan. 13/2 Three of the four pangrammatists are listed here. 2002 Spectator (Nexis) 7 Sept. 32 The Holy Grail of the pangrammatists is the isopangram, which uses each letter once and once only. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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