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Webster 1913 Edition
Anagram
An′a-gram
(ăn′ȧ-grăm)
, Noun.
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.
An′a-gram
,Verb.
T.
To anagrammatize.
Some of these
anagramed
his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Anagram
AN'AGRAM
,Noun.
A transposition of the letters of a name, by which a new word is formed. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy, (attorney general to Charles I., a laborious man,) may be turned into I moyl in law.