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Anagram \An"a*gram\ ([a^]n"[.a]*gr[a^]m), n. [F. anagramme, LL.
anagramma, fr. Gr. 'ana` back, again gra`fein to write. See
{Graphic}.]
Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its
usual wider sense, the change of 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.
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Anagram \An"a*gram\, v. t.
To anagrammatize.
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Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into
Benevolus. --Warburton.
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