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Definition of Anagram

1. Noun. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.

Definition of Anagram

1. n. Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

2. v. t. To anagrammatize.

Definition of Anagram

1. Noun. (context: of words) A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. ¹

2. Verb. To form anagrams. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anagram

1. to transpose the letters of a word or phrase to form a new one [v -GRAMMED, -GRAMMING, -GRAMS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anagram

Literary usage of Anagram

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"Such difficult trifles it may be convenient at all times to discard ; but, if ingenious minds can convert an anagram into a means of exercising their ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"A well-known anagram is the ... anagram submitted by the dean of the Arches, ... Another species of anagram, called " palindrome " (Gr. тс\. ..."

3. Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1846)
"Le Laboureur, the historian, was extremely pleased with the anagram made on the mistress of Charles IX of France. Her name waa Marie Tone he Ц Jo charme ..."

4. Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1851)
"The unhappy history of Mary Queen of Scots, the deprivation of her kingdom, and her violent death, were expressed in this Latin anagram : Maña ..."

5. The Cryptography of Shakespeare by Walter Arensberg (1922)
"As a spelling in which an anagrammatic transposition of the acrostic letters indicates another spelling, the acrostic anagram differs from the common ..."

6. The Complete Poems of John Donne by John Donne, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1872)
"THE anagram. MARRY, and love thy Flavia, for shee Hath all things, ... all her parts be not in the usual place, 15 Yet she hath the anagram of a good face. ..."

7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1852)
"Indeed, to that nation belongs the honour of having introduced the anagram; and such is the estimation in which “the art” was held by them at one time, ..."

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