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an·a·gram

(ăn′ə-grăm′)

1. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.

2. anagrams(used with a sing. verb) A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.

[New Latin anagramma, from Greek anagrammatismos, from anagrammatizein, to rearrange letters in a word : ana-, from bottom to top; see ana- + gramma, grammat-, letter; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.]

an′a·gram·mat′ic (-grə-măt′ĭk) adj.

an′a·gram·mat′i·cal·ly adv.

an′a·gram′ma·tize′ (-ə-tīz′) v.

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anagrams - a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters

word game - any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words

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"When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams. First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings.

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One might almost sympathize with Sarah Helen Whitman, who, confessing to a half faith in the old superstition of the significance of anagrams, found, in the transposed letters of Edgar Poe's name, the words "a God-peer." His mind, she says, was indeed a "Haunted Palace," echoing to the footfalls of angels and demons.

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Colleville had a passion for reading the horoscopes of famous men in the anagram of their names.

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