Obs. rare. [f. prec. sb. after Fr. anagrammer, f. anagramme.]
1. trans. To ANAGRAMMATIZE.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., II. 114/1. To Anagram my Art into a Vermine [i. e. art into rat].
1682. Bunyan, Holy War, To Reader, Witness my name, if anagram’d to thee, The letters make ‘Nu hony in a B.’
1751. Warburton, Pope’s Wks., Dunciad, III. 21 (Jod.). Some of these anagrammed his name Benlowes into Benevolus.
2. intr. To make anagrams.
1646. Shirley, To C’tess Ormond. I never learned that trick of court, to … anagram upon her name.
