a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.]
1. Of or pertaining to an anagram; performed or produced by transposition of letters.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1657), 175. This was by transposition anagrammatical, framed out of the name of the Earl of Worcester: Edwardus Somerset, Moderatus sed Verus.
a. 1745. Swift, Barb. Denom. Irel. Some have contrived anagrammatical appellations, from half their own and their [ladyes’ ?] names joined together.
1825. Southey, in Q. Rev., XXXIII. 5. We cannot leave the author’s name in that obscurity which the anagrammatical title seems intended to throw over it … Merlin is only the representative of Dr. Milner.
† 2. fig. Performed by the displacement and rearrangement of things. Obs. rare.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 744. The Generations, and Corruptions or Deaths of Animals, according to this Hypothesis, are nothing but an Anagrammatical Transposition of Things in the Universe.
