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lipogrammatic, a.|ˌlɪpəʊgræˈmætɪk| [f. as prec. + -ic. Cf. F. lipogrammatique.] Of or pertaining to a lipogram; of the nature of a lipogram.
1739J. Merrick Triphiodorus p. xv, Tryphiodorus is said..to have composed a Lipogrammatick Odyssey, from which he entirely excluded the letter Sigma. 1891H. Morley Note to Spect. No. 59 ⁋2 The earliest writer of Lipogrammatic verse is said to have been the Greek poet Lasus, born in Achaia 538 b.c. So lipoˈgrammatism, the art or practice of writing lipograms. lipoˈgrammatist, a writer of lipograms.
1711Addison Spect. No. 59 ⁋2 The first I shall produce are the Lipogrammatists or Letter-droppers of Antiquity. 1816Southey Ess. vi. (1832) I. 296 No author ever shackled himself by more absurd restrictions (not even the Lipogrammatists). 1862Marsh Eng. Lang. 394 Lipogrammatism..would not deserve to be noticed, had not distinguished authors..occasionally practised it. |