anagramn.

Brit.

/ˈanəɡram/, U.S.

/ˈænəˌɡræm/

Forms: 1500s–1600s anagrame, 1500s–1600s anagramme, 1600s anagramm, 1600s annagram, 1600s annagrame, 1600s– anagram.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anagramme; Latin anagramma.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French anagramme (1571), or its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin anagramma (early 16th cent.) < ana- ana- prefix + -gramma -gram comb. form, after ancient Greek ἀναγράϕειν to write out, record, describe.Compare Italian anagramma (a1618), Spanish anagrama (first half of the 17th cent.), also German Anagramm (1639 as anagramma , in early use (before late 18th cent.) with Latin inflectional endings). Greek ἀνάγραμμα is apparently first attested in 1547, in Hebrew characters, in a Greek translation of the Pentateuch, in the sense ‘arrangement, classification’. Hellenistic Greek grammarians used ἀναγραμματίζειν anagrammatize v. and ἀναγραμματισμός anagrammatism n.

1. A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another word, phrase, or name.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > [noun]

anagram1589

paragram?1637

metagram1800

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. sig. iij^v Of the Anagrame, or posie transposed.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. vi. 185 This Gustavus (whose Anagram is Augustus) was a great Captain.

1750 M. Jones Misc. in Prose & Verse 186 Mysterious Words compos'd in the form of Anagrams.

1830 G. Colman Random Rec. I. ii. 21 The anagram of my name is No Calm.

1929 G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky ii. iii. 184 Twelve stones which..when engraved each with an anagram of the name of God, were supposed to have a mystical power.

2010 Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 33/1 I can spot in seconds that ‘each purist’ is an anagram of ‘pasticheur’.

2. figurative. A rearranged or encoded version of something; a transposition.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > product of transformation

metamorphosis1574

convert1589

magistery1605

transformationa1616

anagrama1631

permutation1883

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 45 Though all her parts be not in th'usuall place, She'hath yet an Anagram of a good face.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 60. ¶3 The Anagram of a Man.

1846 G. P. R. James Beauchamp 88/1 The anagram of the heart might read thus: ‘May we not as well make love too?’

1995 G. Pollock in S. W. Melville & B. Reading Vision & Textuality iii. 61 Writing itself is the anagram of the mother's body.

3. In plural. Any of various games in which players rearrange the letters of a word, phrase, or name to make another word, phrase, or name.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles

riddleOE

logogriph1598

rebus1605

name-device1631

telesticha1637

lipogram1711

charade1776

conundrum1790

logogram1820

anagrams?1860

acrostic1861

metagram1867

word square1867

verbarian1872

jumble-letters1899

word ladder1928

Double-Crostic1934

word search1957

hangman1961

?1860 ‘H. Dalton’ Bk. Drawing-room Plays & Evening Amusem. 237 Anagrams. This game is played with alphabets.., but..the sentences or words must compose the names of some celebrated man or woman. For instance:—‘William Shakspeare [sic]—Make we all his praise.’

1928 Vogue 24 Nov. 116/3 Sit down at the..table for a round of anagrams... The little wooden letters spell worlds of entertainment.

2001 S. Fatsis Word Freak xiii. 197 Another late night in the tournament room..playing Anagrams. That's the game in which players shout out words from a pool of tiles..turned over one by one.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

anagramv.

Brit.

/ˈanəɡram/, U.S.

/ˈænəˌɡræm/

Forms: see anagram n.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: anagram n.

Etymology: < anagram n. Compare earlier anagrammatize v.Compare French anagrammer (first half of the 17th cent.).

1. transitive. To rearrange the letters of (a word, phrase, or name) to form another word, phrase, or name.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > form anagram [verb (transitive)]

anagrammatizea1593

anagram1622

anagramize1636

1622 J. Taylor Arrant Thiefe Ep. Ded. sig. A3 To Annagram my Art into a Vermine [i.e. to change art to rat].

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War sig. Cc8^v (advt.) Witness my name, if Anagram'd to thee, The Letters make, Nu hony in a B .

1743 W. Warburton in A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iii. 21 (note) Some of these anagramm'd his name, Benlowes into Benevolus.

1812 W. Richards Hist. Lynn I. i. iii. 183 He is said to have been particularly disliked by the queen, who very curiously anagrammed his name.

1914 E. G. O'Donoghue Story of Bethlehem Hosp. xx. 172 She was moved to remark that ‘John Davies’ anagrammed..would read ‘Jove's hand’.

2004 Philadelphia Apr. 61/3 She notices the Gaelic toast ‘slainte’..and immediately anagrams it: entails, salient.

2. intransitive. To compose or solve anagrams. Also with †upon. rare before late 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > make anagrams [verb (intransitive)]

anagram1646

1646 J. Shirley To L. El. Co. of Or. in Poems i. 36 I never learn'd that trick of Court to..Anagram upon her Name.

1990 H. Kenner Hist. Fictions 47 Hours spent sitting and thinking,..anagramming, doodling.

2006 J. Green Abundance of Katherines (2008) viii. 72 You're anagramming, aren't you, motherfugger?

Derivatives

ˈanagramming n. the action or an act of rearranging the letters of a word, phrase, or name to form another word, phrase, or name, or of composing or solving anagrams.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > [noun] > creation of

anagrammatism1605

anagramming1623

anagrapsis1669

anagrammatizing1738

anagrammatization1876

1623 T. L. Expos. XI. XII. & XIII. Chapters Revellation 106 So by a conceited framing and anagramming of letters, they haue endeuoured to find out such a name.

1977 D. Jones My Friend Dylan Thomas v. 46 I tried to introduce him to an anagramming game with Lexicon cards.

2009 New Yorker 19 Jan. 28/1 Top competitors..subject themselves..to gruelling training regimens—mostly with speed anagramming and memory exercises.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	anagram
释义	anagramn. Brit. /ˈanəɡram/, U.S. /ˈænəˌɡræm/ Forms: 1500s–1600s anagrame, 1500s–1600s anagramme, 1600s anagramm, 1600s annagram, 1600s annagrame, 1600s– anagram. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anagramme; Latin anagramma. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French anagramme (1571), or its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin anagramma (early 16th cent.) < ana- ana- prefix + -gramma -gram comb. form, after ancient Greek ἀναγράϕειν to write out, record, describe.Compare Italian anagramma (a1618), Spanish anagrama (first half of the 17th cent.), also German Anagramm (1639 as anagramma , in early use (before late 18th cent.) with Latin inflectional endings). Greek ἀνάγραμμα is apparently first attested in 1547, in Hebrew characters, in a Greek translation of the Pentateuch, in the sense ‘arrangement, classification’. Hellenistic Greek grammarians used ἀναγραμματίζειν anagrammatize v. and ἀναγραμματισμός anagrammatism n. 1. A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another word, phrase, or name. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > [noun] anagram1589 paragram?1637 metagram1800 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. sig. iij^v Of the Anagrame, or posie transposed. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. vi. 185 This Gustavus (whose Anagram is Augustus) was a great Captain. 1750 M. Jones Misc. in Prose & Verse 186 Mysterious Words compos'd in the form of Anagrams. 1830 G. Colman Random Rec. I. ii. 21 The anagram of my name is No Calm. 1929 G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky ii. iii. 184 Twelve stones which..when engraved each with an anagram of the name of God, were supposed to have a mystical power. 2010 Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 33/1 I can spot in seconds that ‘each purist’ is an anagram of ‘pasticheur’. 2. figurative. A rearranged or encoded version of something; a transposition. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > product of transformation metamorphosis1574 convert1589 magistery1605 transformationa1616 anagrama1631 permutation1883 a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 45 Though all her parts be not in th'usuall place, She'hath yet an Anagram of a good face. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 60. ¶3 The Anagram of a Man. 1846 G. P. R. James Beauchamp 88/1 The anagram of the heart might read thus: ‘May we not as well make love too?’ 1995 G. Pollock in S. W. Melville & B. Reading Vision & Textuality iii. 61 Writing itself is the anagram of the mother's body. 3. In plural. Any of various games in which players rearrange the letters of a word, phrase, or name to make another word, phrase, or name. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles riddleOE logogriph1598 rebus1605 name-device1631 telesticha1637 lipogram1711 charade1776 conundrum1790 logogram1820 anagrams?1860 acrostic1861 metagram1867 word square1867 verbarian1872 jumble-letters1899 word ladder1928 Double-Crostic1934 word search1957 hangman1961 ?1860 ‘H. Dalton’ Bk. Drawing-room Plays & Evening Amusem. 237 Anagrams. This game is played with alphabets.., but..the sentences or words must compose the names of some celebrated man or woman. For instance:—‘William Shakspeare [sic]—Make we all his praise.’ 1928 Vogue 24 Nov. 116/3 Sit down at the..table for a round of anagrams... The little wooden letters spell worlds of entertainment. 2001 S. Fatsis Word Freak xiii. 197 Another late night in the tournament room..playing Anagrams. That's the game in which players shout out words from a pool of tiles..turned over one by one. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). anagramv. Brit. /ˈanəɡram/, U.S. /ˈænəˌɡræm/ Forms: see anagram n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: anagram n. Etymology: < anagram n. Compare earlier anagrammatize v.Compare French anagrammer (first half of the 17th cent.). 1. transitive. To rearrange the letters of (a word, phrase, or name) to form another word, phrase, or name. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > form anagram [verb (transitive)] anagrammatizea1593 anagram1622 anagramize1636 1622 J. Taylor Arrant Thiefe Ep. Ded. sig. A3 To Annagram my Art into a Vermine [i.e. to change art to rat]. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War sig. Cc8^v (advt.) Witness my name, if Anagram'd to thee, The Letters make, Nu hony in a B . View more context for this quotation 1743 W. Warburton in A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iii. 21 (note) Some of these anagramm'd his name, Benlowes into Benevolus. 1812 W. Richards Hist. Lynn I. i. iii. 183 He is said to have been particularly disliked by the queen, who very curiously anagrammed his name. 1914 E. G. O'Donoghue Story of Bethlehem Hosp. xx. 172 She was moved to remark that ‘John Davies’ anagrammed..would read ‘Jove's hand’. 2004 Philadelphia Apr. 61/3 She notices the Gaelic toast ‘slainte’..and immediately anagrams it: entails, salient. 2. intransitive. To compose or solve anagrams. Also with †upon. rare before late 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > make anagrams [verb (intransitive)] anagram1646 1646 J. Shirley To L. El. Co. of Or. in Poems i. 36 I never learn'd that trick of Court to..Anagram upon her Name. 1990 H. Kenner Hist. Fictions 47 Hours spent sitting and thinking,..anagramming, doodling. 2006 J. Green Abundance of Katherines (2008) viii. 72 You're anagramming, aren't you, motherfugger? Derivatives ˈanagramming n. the action or an act of rearranging the letters of a word, phrase, or name to form another word, phrase, or name, or of composing or solving anagrams. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > [noun] > creation of anagrammatism1605 anagramming1623 anagrapsis1669 anagrammatizing1738 anagrammatization1876 1623 T. L. Expos. XI. XII. & XIII. Chapters Revellation 106 So by a conceited framing and anagramming of letters, they haue endeuoured to find out such a name. 1977 D. Jones My Friend Dylan Thomas v. 46 I tried to introduce him to an anagramming game with Lexicon cards. 2009 New Yorker 19 Jan. 28/1 Top competitors..subject themselves..to gruelling training regimens—mostly with speed anagramming and memory exercises. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1589v.1622
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