Anagrammatist

[f. ANAGRAMMATIZE: see -IST. Cf. mod.Fr. anagrammatiste, perh. earlier than Eng.] A maker of anagrams. Also applied to, A book of anagrams.

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1613. Gamage, Epigrams, xviii. (T.). M^r. W. Aubrey, an ingenious Anagrammatist.

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1634. F. Lenton (title), The Inns of Court Anagrammatist, or, The Masquers Masqued in Anagrams.

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1711. Addison, Spect., No. 60, ¶ 4. When the Anagrammatist takes a Name to work upon, he considers it at first as a Mine not broken up.

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1834–43. Southey, Doctor, clxxix. (1862), 467. Louis XIII. appointed the Provençal Thomas Billen to be his Royal Anagrammatist, and granted him a salary of 1200 livres.

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