Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.
  • To make anagrams. Also spelled anagrammatise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.

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  • verb Alternative spelling of anagrammatise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning

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Examples

  • John Kidd is to be commended generally, and specifically for forbearing to anagrammatize Gabler's name as Gartle.

    'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange Adams, Robert M. 1988

  • Why don't you anagrammatize, or whatever you call it,

    Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • If I were named 'Charles X., par la grace de Dieu roi de France et de Navarre,' I should tremble in my shoes at the fate those letters anagrammatize. "

    Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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