单词 | anagrammatize |
释义 | anagrammatizev. transitive. To rearrange the letters of (a word, phrase, or name) to form another word, phrase, or name. Also figurative. 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 a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. B Iehoua's name, Forward, and backward, Anagramatis'd. 1622 J. Taylor Arrant Thiefe sig. A3 I doe anagrammatize Water-Rat, to bee A true Art. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 40 The whole System of the Created Universe..was..Really nothing else, but one and the same Thing perpetually Anagrammatized. a1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 95 The name anagrammatized was not Elizabeth, but Isabel. 1862 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 23 Calvin..anagrammatized his name, ‘Rabelæsius’ into Rabie Læsus [i.e. ‘afflicted with madness’]. 1934 D. Thomas Let. c21 May (1987) 136 It is as ambitious as the Divine Comedy, with a chorus of deadly sins, anagrammatised as old gentlemen. 2019 K. Killian in M. Tupitsyn Picture Cycle 14 She anagramatizes ‘Daniel’ from The Karate Kid as ‘denial’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.a1593 |
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