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Anagrammatic

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an·a·gram  (n-grm)
n.
1. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
2. anagrams (used with a sing. verb) A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.

[New Latin anagramma, from Greek anagrammatismos, from anagrammatizein, to rearrange letters in a word : ana-, from bottom to top; see ana- + gramma, grammat-, letter; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.]

ana·gram·matic (-gr-mtk) adj.
ana·gram·mati·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.anagrammatic - related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram


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In addition, Beroalde's use of "cinquieme essence" also recalls the aichemical frame of reference in the title page of Gargantua where Francois Rabelais' anagrammatic pseudonym, Maitre Alcofribas, is followed in apposition by the epithet "Abstracteur de Quinte Essence.
"Crenshaw is a juicy melon," she begins; and then proceeds to reel off a head-spinning string of anagrammatic threats and boasts such as "I'd rend your cares with my shears.
Published in 1940 under the anagrammatic pseudonym Roger-Maxe de la Glannege, it was among the first substantial treatments of a practice deemed abnormal and obscene.
 
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