单词 | logogriph |
释义 | logogriphn. A kind of enigma, in which a certain word, and other words that can be formed out of all or any of its letters, are to be guessed from synonyms of them introduced into a set of verses. Occasionally used for: Any anagram or puzzle involving anagrams. 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 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. i. 5 Worse then the Logogryphes of later times, Or Hundreth Riddles shak't to sleeue-lesse rimes. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliii. 34 in Wks. (1640) III Had I..weav'd fittie [read fiftie] tomes Of Logogriphes, and curious Palindromes. 1765 H. Walpole Let. to Lady Hervey 21 Nov. Lett. (1857) IV. 439 All I can send your ladyship is a very pretty logogriphe, made by..Madame du Deffand. 1770 C. J. Fox Let. 25 Oct. in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 398 I gained great credit there by guessing a logogryphe. 1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 36 417 A logogriph..describes not a word only, but all the included words, which any portion of its letters can spell. 1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 808 A sort of logogriff not worthy of solution. 1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) i. xii. 136 The original discovery was announced to Kepler in the following logogriph. 1884 J. Payne 1001 Nights VII. 210 (note) The clue to this logogriph lies in the numerical value of the letters forming the key-word. Derivatives logoˈgriphic adj. of or pertaining to logogriphs, of the nature of a logogriph. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [adjective] > relating to other word puzzles acrostic1585 logogriphic1814 logogrammatic1820 1814 Q. Rev. 10 464 By dropping r [from Borlase], and changing ase into us, we have the ingenious logogriphic title of Sir Bolus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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