Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.
- To make anagrams. Also spelled
anagrammatise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative spelling of
anagrammatise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
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Examples
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John Kidd is to be commended generally, and specifically for forbearing to anagrammatize Gabler's name as Gartle.
'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988
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Why don't you anagrammatize, or whatever you call it,
Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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If I were named 'Charles X., par la grace de Dieu roi de France et de Navarre,' I should tremble in my shoes at the fate those letters anagrammatize. "
Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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