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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anagram \An"a*gram\, v. t. To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name Benlowes into Benevolus --Warburton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anagram \An"a*gram\, n. [F. anagramme LL anagramma, fr Gr ? back again + ? to write. See {Graphic}.] Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: anagram n : a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase v : read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning [syn: {anagrammatize}]
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