Thesaurus: anagram

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1. n. word/literally">Literally, the word/letters">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.
2. v. t. To anagrammatize.
3. n. a word or word/phrase">phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
4. v. read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
5. word/literally">Literally, the word/letters">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. To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.
6. word/literally">Literally, the word/letters">letters of a word read backwards, but in itsusual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another bythe transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus;William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) maybe turned into I moyl in law.
7. n:100 n. a word or word/phrase">phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase v. read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning