anagrammatise
English
Alternative forms
- anagrammatize (American and Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀναγραμματίζω (anagrammatízō).[1]
Verb
anagrammatise (third-person singular simple present anagrammatises, present participle anagrammatising, simple past and past participle anagrammatised)
- (transitive, non-Oxford British spelling) To produce an anagram of; to transpose the letters of.
- Synonym: anagramize
- 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Mar[lowe], The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. […], London: […] Iohn Wright, […], published 1616 (1631 reprint), →OCLC, signature B, recto, page [15]:
- Within this Circle is Iehoua's name,/Forward and backward Annagrammatiz'd:
Translations
to produce an anagram of
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References
- ^ “anagrammatize, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.