Anagram /(ăn"ȧ*grăm)/
An·a·gram
Anagram
n.
- Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change of 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.
Anagram
v. t.
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To anagrammatize.
Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus.