[a. Fr. anagrammatisme, ad. (perh. through mod.L.) Gr. ἀναγραμματισμ-ός: see ANAGRAMMATIZE and -ISM.] The formation of anagrams; the transposition of letters so as to form a new word or words.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1657), 169. Names consisting of alphabetary revolution, which they will have to be anagrammatism.
1669. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. II. iii. 26. By the artifice of anagrammatisme, Syna is made Nysa.
1862. H. Wheatley, Anagr., 74. The practice of anagrammatism was by no means uncommon among the Greeks.
